...thus bringing (a bit of) the US kicking and screaming in line with much of the rest of the world?
(Had a walk round a small bit of rural Pennsylvania once, on a day off from a business trip there. As in went out of the motel and wandered off in the opposite direction to where I'd normally be driven to the local office, 'cos it looked like nice countryside. Only later did I wonder if I'd have been most at threat from some local (or law enforcement) assuming I was "up to nuthin' good", near various deep-in-the-woods properties, or from being hit by a vehicle (or a fine, by the PD) once I was on a stretch of road with no pavemsidewalk, that meant I had to pretty sharpish jump up onto the banked verge (and, thus, maybe subtly trespassing... see above!) whenever I heard something coming round the next heavily tree-lined bend. Even though the full import of my possible foolishness hadn't hit home yet, I was a bit relieved when I got to the next settlement up the road, which seemed to consist almost only of strip-mall of (Ma-and-Pa level) small retailers and restaurants and a bus-stop that took me (roughly, with a few crosswalks needed taking) back where I was staying later on. At best, I maybe considered some over-officious officer making presumptions similar to those at the start of First Blood.)