Taking the community from online to physical world

This story is pretty interesting. A group of Ron Paul supporters is trying to create several gated communities that consist entirely of people who believe in their ideals. At least according to posts on their forum, some participants hope to build a large enough base of support to be control the county government and perhaps elect a representative to the state house. I doubt this will be that successful - while Paul has a fair number of supporters online, it is something else entirely to move your family to an isolated part of Texas for your political ideals. But it is interesting to see someone try to take an online political community based around a single candidate and try to make it into a physical community.