section_path: National variants/North America
section_name: North America
paragraph_text: North America
  
  American conservatism, combining traditionalism and libertarianism, is different from European conservatism and can be traced back to the classical liberalism of the 18th and 19th centuries, although Canada also developed an American-style conservatism that competed with the older Tory conservatism. According to Louis Hartz, French Canada is a fragment of feudal Europe, whereas the United States and English Canada are liberal fragments. Reginald Bibby asserts that conservatism has been strong and enduring throughout North America because of the propagation of religious values from generation to generation.