In the New York Times Book Review today, Virginia Postrel reviewed "Liberty and Freedom" by David Hackett Fischer. Fischer evidently believes that successive immigrations to the USA brought different ideas of liberty. The New England idea of liberty was community focused and allowed for some restriction on individual rights. The Scotch-Irish and German ideas of liberty were more individualistic and suspicious of government. Postrel says that the book portrays these ideas as reaching a defining conflict over Prohibition. Amazon has not noticed any controversy over the book. Postrel noted that the author is nostalgic for the "vital center" idea of liberty. The review suggests that "blue state" and "red state" political beliefs go back almost to the beginning of the country and have never been shared by everyone. This idea should be pondered by Kossacks.
Kossacks may also face conflict based on religious beliefs about what a leader is. Religious beliefs based on "all simple aphorisms" (author's mother) will have more tolerance for Bush than religious beliefs that value complexity.