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Entry: Race, Nationalism, and Patriotism, Part III: Patriotism Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/race_nationalism_and_patriotism_part_iii_patriotism#15874 Post contents: Ah, Bede, it is one thing for people who have lived in one place for generations to resent newcomers with no established family behind them. It is another for a group of newcomers to resent another We are becoming transients, newcomers, with no more clain to a place than any other transient, and thus we are forced to re-create our communities over and over. By the way, Scott, do you realize that this explains why the central government grows and grows? With a population of transients, the local institutions that would normally do the job are hollowed out and rendered useless. We have no local community, so why would we expect it to deliver those services that according to subsidiarity theory it should? Something has to fill that vacuum, and that something is the central goverment, which, like it or not, has grown roots and has a permanence that local institutions lack. Sent at: 2008 07 09