>Wow, your too easy. That's like saying [Social|Commun]ism must include
>Gulags and the starvation of millions. 1840 Alabama was no more the
>Utopian republic than 1930 Russia was the Communist Utopia.
A lot of actual libertarians think that the pre-Civil War U.S. was indeed something of an earthly utopia - see, for example, the output of the Rockford Institute and the von Mises Institute, as well as the so-called "Patriot" movement. I'm not making this up, you know.
Doug