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Ah yes, the famous "frontier thesis". Interesting to me that this thesis is not actually a modern invention, it dates back to 1893, only three years after the frontier 'officially' faded into nonexistence.
But I do think it's a decent one. There aren't many places and times in history where you could legitimately say "don't like it? Pack up and leave!" and you literally could just leave to somewhere without much rule of law, but still survive. And like, two of them are intertwined with US history.
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