The fact that two groups are both European settlers does not mean they're basically the same people. Would you say that the Barbadian slaveowners who founded Ch

The fact that two groups are both European settlers does not mean they're basically the same people. Would you say that the Barbadian slaveowners who founded Charleston, South Carolina, and heavily influenced the culture of the South, are basically the same people as the Quakers and Puritans who founded colonies further north? They did not see themselves as the same people, and ended up fighting a bloody war over it, which they've been refighting politically ever since.