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And De Tocqueville, who is worth listening to, concluded his travels in America with an endorsement that dismissed all criticisms made earlier.
Yet, as observers dating back to Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 have noted, Americans take pride in their local communities: Wherever transience and provincialism collide, the charge of carpetbagging still stings.
To quote Woodward: "Granting that 'the wishes of democracy are capricious, its instruments rude, its laws imperfect,' granting as well an appalling list of shortcomings that he abhorred--minds 'so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests'--Tocqueville still regarded democracy 'not as the best, but as the only means of preserving freedom.
"Newspapers make associations, and associations make newspapers," Tocqueville wrote.
Tocqueville himself was well aware of many of these extralocal influences.