I was asking you the question, and it seems that you either legimately are at a loss, or less charitably, you're deliberately dodging it.
To answer it for you right now would rob you of the intended learning experience.
Ruminate on it for a week and tag me back if you can't come up with anything else.
I don’t think it boils down to one single thing. How the nation was founded (out of a revolution) and breaking from a colonial monarchy led us down a path of exploring and embracing individuality and personal property rights. Being a democratic republic with strong states rights limited the creep of the federal government and central planning.
