The ever insightful Thomas DiLorenzo is exactly correct. Since 1630 and the arrival of the Puritans on the North American continent life has never been the same. They are the busy body “Karens” at the grocery store, the woke willful idiots at the colleges and universities, the cancel culture bullies on Social Media, the insane hordes of bureaucratic petty tyrants throughout all levels of local, state, and the federal government. Self-righteous, abusive, and closed minded. The puritanical termites of progressivism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Puritans_in_North_America
History of the Puritans in North America (Wikipedia)
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-revenge-of-the-yankees-2/
The Revenge of the Yankees
https://www.davidrreynolds.org/_articles/TheYankeeProbleminAmerica.pdf
The Yankee Problem in America
The Yankee Problem in America (Amazon book list)
In particular, pay attention to the remarkable book, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. Below are two precise summaries of this excellent and exceptional book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed
Perhaps the best summary analysis of a subject on Wikipedia
http://jessewoodsonjames.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/0/8/12083819/fischer-albionsseed.pdf
Albion’s Seed: Four British: Folkways in America
(How the four British colonial migratory groups looked at freedom).
These ethnocultural, ethnoreligious folkway patterns are still largely in effect today. The Puritan/Yankees are still trying to dominate and control our civil society, and they are not strictly confined to New England
Their descendants migrated throughout America, especially through the Northern States, and also the West Coast.
https://mises.org/library/progressive-era-and-family
.The Progressive Era and the Family