This is a fascinating article and I want to read that Albion’s Seed book now. That said, I think theres a missing factor that even if there was the intention to found an Anglo Saxon Protestant nation, the decision to import large numbers of Africans to work the plantations means that America was *in fact* a mixed nation of WASPs and African Americans from the beginning, and I’m not sure that can be ignored in favour of the intention of the original English settlers — after all, the original intention for America was to be under the control of the British Crown!
Sounds like an expression of preference rather than one of fact. The existence of all of those influences have been there since the very beginning. So any development and application of European culture across the states simply could not have evolved in a vacuum.
This is a fascinating article and I want to read that Albion’s Seed book now. That said, I think theres a missing factor that even if there was the intention to found an Anglo Saxon Protestant nation, the decision to import large numbers of Africans to work the plantations means that America was *in fact* a mixed nation of WASPs and African Americans from the beginning, and I’m not sure that can be ignored in favour of the intention of the original English settlers — after all, the original intention for America was to be under the control of the British Crown!
American identity is at least part European, part Native, part Negro, part Mexican.
Sounds like an expression of preference rather than one of fact. The existence of all of those influences have been there since the very beginning. So any development and application of European culture across the states simply could not have evolved in a vacuum.