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One of the traditional accusations against Jews in Europe was precisely that they are "unrooted" (actually meaning, of course, not loyal enough to the current regime) -- this survived at least until Stalin's times.
Not identifying oneself with any particular tribe is a mixed blessing with a silver lining :-D You trade off "roots" and some identity against freedom (e.g. to move to different places). I see land ownership in your future.
About the rootless cosmopolitan thing - it is not just regime loyalty, I have seen non-powerful plumbers talk in terms like this way into the new democratic regimes. It is more of a standard tribal ethnic-racial type of nationalism, blood-and-soil type. It is a classic Blue-Green tribal instinct.
Yes, the standard "they are different, must be an enemy tribe" attitudes are there, of course, too. But the accusation of "rootless" specifically implies both the lack of longstanding allegiance and the possibility of severing ties and moving some place else -- both things not conducive to loyalty.
Indeed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan
Still a thing today in Russia, to an extent.
Oh, in many countries east from Germany. But it is not just about disloyalty to the regime, it is more like plain simple standard tribal ethnic nationalism.
You a wizard or am I so predictable? That was always my secret dreams, but there is no way my child or hopefully potential grandchildren would want to live a rural life, and a hobby farm without passing it on (or predictable sold by the heirs) is a sad thing.
I don't know why a hobby farm is sad. It there to be your own place, not for you to start a noble dynasty.
Can't you rent a farm?
Lumifer's insight was that people like me want to get rooted. Renting is pretty much the opposite of getting rooted.