Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations
The Good Fight
The Constitutive Nation of Massachusetts Bay
The New England colonies were the outgrowth of the Puritan experiment in New England, right? You had this enormous group of Puritans who thought they were in a covenanted relationship with God like the Old Testament Hebrews. And that's the dominant cultural framework of the people who came to Massachusetts Bay and then absorbed essentially annexed their rivals.
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