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To: neolib who wrote (7832)	12/21/2005 5:22:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542005

There is no way that a society which prizes freedom and allows it will maintain a homogenous culture for very long I agree its unlikely (depending on exactly what you mean by "very long") but I disagree, strongly that there is "no way". Esp, if we are talking about a small homogenous society. Perhaps this is partially a semantic issue over "prizes freedom". A society that opposes government intervention, but then also strongly believes in shunning and other non-government forms of pressure, might not be considered by some to be very free, but it is compatable with the idea of libertarianism. If you could show me a single example of a major metropolitan area in the USA Why limit it to the US? which is significantly more conservative/libertarian than the combined rural areas lying further out My idea is more that libertarianism can work in the cities, not that it has been implimented to any great extent in them. I maintain that the answer is largely the result of closer interactions with other people, real or imagined. As I said before I think there are more interactions with others, but I'm not sure they are closer. Tim