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Originally Posted by The_Rorschach
America was never "mostly European." It was settled by religious dissidents, and even during the colonial days, they saw themselves as something other than European. The majority of those who came did so to escape Europe, not to serve it. Years before the beginning of the Revolutionary war, Patrick Henry was quotes as saying
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I take issue with this. Sure, we were distinct, but "we" still lived essentially very "European" lifestyles, and many (Hamilton, for example) still viewed England as the model to live by.
Also, in proportion to the population at the time, how many people took the optional offer of going back to England at the war's conclusion???
I think FS's point was that the people were still essentially "European" in nature, and the ratio of loyalists to "patriots", IMO, reaffirms that point.
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