Thankfully, most Americans do not live in one-horse towns anymore.
So there were clearly understood cultural rules of right and wrong which if you transgressed, life would be made very uncomfortable for you.
That's nice, I guess. The majority of Americans choose to live in places that do not work like that, thank God.
Try openning up one of your precious porn bookstores in a Mormon or Bible Belt community and you'll see what I mean.
Why would I want to do that? I have no desire to impose my values on anyone. All I ask from you and your ilk is that you do the same. Tell you what- you stay in your small town and do whatever the heck it is you people do, and I'll keep living my evil, degenerate lifestyle.
And America has never, ever been in the least libertarian about things like drunkeness, Sunday business, or obscenity
I'm sure you believe this, of course. Where I live, businesses are open on Sunday, people do get drunk in public and are only arrested if they interfere with the rights of others and adults have the right to buy Playboy.
And I live in Red America.
I think your problem is that you can't accept that most of America does not see the world the same way you do.
I was talking about relatively libertarian pre-1933 America. A one-horse town can be pure libertarian because the weight of ostracism would be crushing. The larger and more diverse the community the less ostracism means so the state fills the vacuum.