Never forget that two major ethnic groups made up those whose children would be called American "white people", Scotch-Irish and Germans. Both cultures had a hisotry of kings that would espouse a whole lot of poetic bullshit er political policy as a pretext to screw people over. The Scotch-Irish had their lands in Scotland taken, then got put in Ireland so they could dilute the native Catholic Irish. The Germans were used to kings that were outright nutters, and who were more than happy to emply religious prosecution. Both were used to having their lands and labor taken from them, by states that would emply some pretext. It did not help one whit that both the German and Scotch-Irish were those that embraced the "anabaptist" teachings that were horribly prosecuted. Yes, there was a time when to be a Baptist or Methodist meant you would walk past several of your friends being hung in the square.
The Scotch-Irish went to Dixie, indeed, it is no accident that the stars and bars is a modiefied Union Jack, with the cross of the Irish saint (patrick) the scotch saint (andrew), and the English cross of St George part TAKEN OFF. It is also why, to this day, Southerners are very concerned about land, especially farmland.
The north got many Germans (remember, German missed being our language by ONE vote), and they were also skeptical of any government. Keep in mind, that while Germany has an old Culture, it has a history of governments rising and falling, and a mistrust of said governments that was around long before the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich or the Berlin Wall.
So we have two cultures, both of whom are used to religious persecution, and both of whom think of the government as "those people that will steal from you." Granted, Canada has a similar mix, but in their case, the French helped to add a crucial, non anglo-saxon x factor.
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