| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Starting in the Massachusetts colony, the Puritan teachings that America was to be God's noble errand into the wilderness, a beacon of morality, provided a strong national mythology nearly until the end of the 20th Century.Some have suggested that it is a Puritan spirit in the United States' political culture that creates a tendency to oppose things such as alcohol and open sexuality.
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