[recent_post_slider design="design-1" category="5,6"] It's a symptom of American individualism, a national value that prizes personal freedoms, limited government and free will over all else.
"It's always been the orientation of America on balance, compared to other countries, to put a priority on individual freedom and liberty," says Andrea Campbell, a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies the intersection of politics and public health.