I'd argue that very much we see the shared English political tradition (Common Law is celebrated, especially compared to, say, the weird history of law in Louis

I'd argue that very much we see the shared English political tradition (Common Law is celebrated, especially compared to, say, the weird history of law in Louisiana) and the German work ethic and religion. Also, I think you're whitewashing (ugh) the Polish and Catholic thing a bit. At least through the mid 20th-century, those other groups you mentioned (Italians, Spanish, etc.) were just not heavily represented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_stat...