In "rip van winkle," what are the american citizens more fond of discussing than they had been prior to independence?

The American citizens are more fond of talking about citizen's rights, liberty, congress, voting, busy and busting atmosphere of the town etc..Before independence they were not interested in such topics as they could not speak about liberty and rights.

they would follow the same rules of the religion for example someone would be asian and another could be african but they could both be muslim if they both follow the book given to them and follow the same rules of that religion.

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I to learned something like this a few days ago.