Large swaths of the American Midwest "have community", in the common sense of people in an area sharing and identity and caring about one another. People know each other. Look out for one another. Spend time together socially and culturally.

Of course, all of this only applies if you're sufficiently like them to be judged worthy of membership.

>Of course, all of this only applies if you're sufficiently like them to be judged worthy of membership.

Well, of course. A group who accepts anyone and everyone loses its identity. The real problem is that people don't have freedom of movement: that is, the ability to seek out and join a group that they truly fit in with.

Arguably, part of the problem is that people do. The ones who do come into conflict with the people who have no desire to use their freedom of movement.