IN any OF THE OLD TOWNS IN THE "Ne...

IN any OF THE OLD TOWNS IN THE "New West," things have changed. Residents don't take kindly to spitting forward the sidewalk or drunken discharge of firearms. a certain number of have even gone vegetarian.

mostly (three-quarters) of the interior West of the United States, defined as 12 states east of the Sierras and west of the Great Plains, has a sparse population, with fewer than six race per square mile. That qualifies it as "frontier" through census definitions.

But in about 10 percent of the 247 counties of the of long date West, the New West has issue calling. Affluent ...