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It practically never happens where I live - I've never encountered a local one - so very unlike Grace or Hope: both of which are more religious than sociopolitical. And I also think, based on what I've actually seen and heard, that Americans are more inclined to look at their history as being characterised by the pursuit of liberty and to treat it almost as a virtue unique to their own society: this doesn't seem totally convincing from a distance, so laying claim to Liberty as a virtue so personal as to be a personal name does look pretentious, or self-deluded, because unrealistic.