> arguably the single biggest differentiating factor from other anglo colonies like aus and NZ. Not the gigantic, habitable, natural resource filled landmass?!

> arguably the single biggest differentiating factor from other anglo colonies like aus and NZ. Not the gigantic, habitable, natural resource filled landmass?! I know about the Puritans, Quakers, and Cavaliers. I've read Albion's Seed. Take a look at Scots-Irish demography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans#/media/File:Census_Bureau_Scotch-Irish_Ancestry_in_the_United_States.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans#/media/... You think that correlates to areas of higher US GDP?