Albion's Seed

David Hackett Fischer's 1989 magnum opus arguing that four distinct British regional cultures (Puritans from East Anglia to Massachusetts, Cavaliers from south/west England to Virginia, Quakers from North Midlands to Delaware, Borderland Scots-Irish to the Backcountry) brought their specific folkways to America — and that these four cultures still fundamentally structure American regional differences.

Demonstrates the long continuity of American regional cultures — the cultural differences between New England, the South, the Quaker Mid-Atlantic, and the Scots-Irish Backcountry that manifest in contemporary political and cultural conflicts trace to the specific British origins of the first settlers, not to American history itself.