Darwin was an Englishman so I feel like every year the whole UK gets an honorary Darwin Awardhttps://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1325902896597241861 …
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The Deep South is where English aristocrats went to aristocrat as hard as they could, upgrading to having completely isolated estates where they literally owned everyone who worked for them
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The Mid-Atlantic states is where the new breed of merchant princes went to practice unrestrained capitalism, where first they built New York and then they built Wall Street
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You should see the wackjobs they left behind, though! I mean, the Puritans were a brutal and callous lot, but they committed to a bit, at the expense of some of their own personal ambitions, and I bizarrely admire parts of it.
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One of my hotter takes to be sure (and I'd go with the puritans who remained in England, given the choice; I'm a Cromwell apologist).
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I remember discovering from Sarah Vowell's Wordy Shipmates that Rhode Island was where they sent the people too disruptive of Massachusetts society to stay there.
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I find it endlessly amusing that Anne Hutchinson’s “why even pretend to be good if predestination” was such a powerful logic bomb that Massachusetts expelled her from the colony rather than attempt to answer the question Because, of course, there is no satisfactory answer
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