Notice that I said "puritan", not "Puritan" - "puritan" usually doesn't mean anything directly connected to the Puritans in modern discourse. Check the dictiona

Notice that I said "puritan", not "Puritan" - "puritan" usually doesn't mean anything directly connected to the Puritans in modern discourse. Check the dictionary. It has a generalized primary meaning today. And your country is the definition of it (of course, also not literally). From your link: "Puritanism was never a formally defined religious division within Protestantism, and the term Puritan itself was rarely used after the turn of the 18th century." - that makes it extremely unlikely I meant it literally, don't you think? As for the original issue - I wasn't over 18 back then and it was very visible.