Divorce and crime rates have increased dramatically. Fukuyama leans towards the last explanation. They created their own communities, churches, schools and even value systems, pushing a frontier that was as much psychological as physical. Fukuyama asserts that this capacity for self-organisation, independent of government, means that social capital is constantly being regenerated. Divorce rates are falling, as is the violent crime rate.
Mores depend on local particularities.
Belief systems in the fundamentalist agrarian South differ radically from the urbanised sceptical Northeast. Gesellschaft provides an external, often remote, framework of association, dependent on law and contract - the corporation, the chain store, the Australian Taxation Office, Telstra, ATMs, hierarchical churches. Society depends on rules, impartiality, fairness, predictability and transparency, while networking involves personal interaction, reciprocity, mateship and non-transparency. The Internet, which Fukuyama fails to mention, has attributes of both gemeinschaft and gesellschaft. He argues that in large systems, or states, in the end, spontaneity breaks down or is inadequate and hierarchy is reimposed.