The aftermath of the English Civil War (which took place between 1642-51 and encompassed England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, as well as the English colonies in America) can still be seen today. Ask an Irishman his opinion of Oliver Cromwell ... then step back several paces for your own safety! It was the English Civil War that took most of the Royal Powers away from the King, although they remained vested in the Crown, and all monarchs thereafter ruled subject to the will of Parliament*. Protestants from places like Massachusetts and Connecticut returned to England to fight against the King and strongly supported Cromwell's republic after the King was executed. Virginia, on the other hand, was noted for its strong support of the Royalist cause: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/...n_American_War, where it is noted that the same split between colonies occurred again between the successor states in the American Civil War.

If some of the scars from that conflict are yet to heal, it is obvious to me that there will still be lingering sores in the US following their own more recent civil war and the long and painful progress towards the liberation of blacks afterwards; I am told that there are still significant organisations in America, mostly in the South, which still espouse white supremacy and continue to fly the Confederate flag, as if the defunct Confederacy represented the true America, rather than the present government.

Time is a slow healer.



*... making it impossible for King George III to have been the tyrant he is made out to be, especially as he believed he was defending the British constitution against usurpers.