I truly hope that you will continue to add to the discussions – especially when I get something wrong or miss important points.

There was little appetite for armed conflict and secession from Britain anywhere else in the colonies save the radicals in Massachusetts and New England, whose descendants were to plunge the nation into truly bloody strife 90 years later. It was the British government’s [led by the inept Lord North] heavy handed attempts at coercion following the Tea Party that rallied the other colonies, in particular Virginia, to Massachusetts’ defense that brought the Revolution to fruition.

It is important to note that the Puritan colonists of Greater New England fled England because they opposed the English Monarchy and the Church of England. The Anglican-Cavalier colonists of Virginia and the South fled England because they lost the English Civil War to the Puritans.

This profound cultural and religious divide carried to North America from England laid the foundation for the War Between The States. Another interesting fact is that the Southern colonists were loyal to the House of Stuart line of English/British monarchs who were permanently deposed from the throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The future and foreign [German] House of Hanover which produced King George III was foreign and alien to the Southern colonists not to mention the Congregationalist New Englanders. The British Government, created by the Act of Union between England and Scotland was also a concept and entity foreign to the English colonists although it did provide for the immediate migration of hundreds of thousands of disaffected immigrants primarily to the South whom we now refer to as the Scots-Irish and whose numbers in Washington’s army made American victory in the Revolutionary War possible—-along with French help.