Paulville

. The Paulville site was located in the undeveloped salt flats outside of city limits, located south-southwest of rural Dell City, Texas (population 365 in 2010), north of U.S. Route 180, and an hour east of El Paso. The organizers said had been purchased. The mountain area is also noted for elk, coyotes, jack rabbits, desert cottontails, ring-tailed ground squirrels, and gray foxes. Another mountain range looms just west. The site is located within Texas's 23rd Congressional district and is represented by Republican Tony Gonzales. ==Organization==

The property became available to the community when offered for sale on eBay by its original owner. and was established on January 27, 2008, by Ron Paul meetup organizer Jason Ebacher of Farwell, Minnesota. It was held by a cooperative of shareholders, who held a first organizational meeting in April 2008 and who vote on essentials such as utilities. Ebacher appeared in a one-hour conceptual video, created for Ron Paul Television prior to the purchase; captioned "Television for the revolution", it was carried by The New York Times, which meanwhile chided the website for a libertarian "view of the laws of grammar, spelling and punctuation" and noted its lack of contact information. which Politico considered as possibly suggesting "a perilous time for the infant community." The website and organization have remained inactive since. ==Development==

Planners claimed to metaphorically raise the Paulville town sign was expected to take significant work, which the organizers warned is "not for the faint of heart". or Montana;. New Australia in Paraguay, the Findhorn Foundation community in Scotland, and Celebration and Ave Maria in Florida. Ideology-based communities have ranged from communism to environmentalism. Jonathan Dawson, an educator based at Findhorn, questions the point of inward-facing micro-communities, but talks about "providing an example" to others: "It's not useful to retreat just for the sake of it." ==Reaction==

The site was chosen by and for the large market of "100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty"; have had fundraising history that suggests "seemingly bottomless bank accounts", Paulville has attracted mixed reviews. The Houston-based Lone Star Times referred to founding members as "Paulvillains" and as creating "an insane asylum", and presented diverse posts from forum members, Paul himself was ambivalent about Paulville: "You want to spread out and be as pervasive as possible .... I don’t see [Paulville] as a solution, but it can't hurt anything either." He believes that "it shows how desperate people are for freedom." He found the prospects for additional communities entertaining, but said, "I don't know how much [Paulvilles] would do." Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic said, "Who wants to live around people who agree with you on everything? Not my kind of libertarian"; he was echoed by Jesse Walker of Reason. The Libertarian Party of Texas believed Paulville had potential for demonstrating practical libertarianism in action. ==See also==