Throughout American history, English immigrants and their descendants have been prominent in each degree of government and in every side of American life. The descendants of English expatriates are so quite a few and so effectively integrated in American life that it is unattainable to determine all of them. Dark blue and purple colours point out the next proportion: highest within the east and west (see also Maps of American ancestries). Apple pie - New England was the primary area to experience giant-scale English colonization in the early seventeenth century, beginning in 1620, and it was dominated by East Anglian Calvinists, better known as the Puritans. Fleeing religious persecution in the East Midlands in England, they first went to Holland, but feared losing their English identity. This story has turn into a central theme within the United States cultural identity. Nearly all of the Founding Fathers of the United States had been of English extraction.
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