American/UK special relationship

There was once a tie between the U.S. and the UK… It has diminished over the last 200 years however… loyalists moved to Canada or the Caribbean. You will find much closer ties there and there.

Many Americans of British stock moved here to get away from oppressed lives they lived in Albion. When they came here they cast aside the English mantle and favored self rule.

Today we share a common language in some respects… common legal structure… but the seperation for 400 years has meant that even Americans with mostly British blood flowing through their veins have little in common with the English on a cultural level. Again… Canada and the Caribbean are much more English.

Americans of British stock moved at a time when the UK was urbanizing. This forced the British to adapt and advance in culture… while the British in America retained the culture of Elizabethan England much longer… my grandparents still use words such as holp as a past tense of help… we still say gotten for example. I would venture the guess that most English have much more in common with the areas of the U.S. populated by groups not particularly British in ancestry… like the Midatlantic and New England states.

Beyond the differences… there is now an underlying affiliation between England and America… we watch the same shows… borrow from the same bankers… and fight wars for the same groups… we are similar in our idiocy.