>>23886737Sure, some migrated to north america on rational/principled grounds or because valid persecution, but many, many, were pressed into moving to the continent, or legally compelled to do so, because they were the dregs of their societies or their incessant/insane religiosity made them miserable fucks that no one wanted to be around.
Basically, in the English context especially, a fairly ethnically homogenous society didn't have many melanin havers with which to entertain their prejudices, and more accurately, to blame their societal woes, so, the lowest echelons became the immigrants of their day (to contrive an analogy from the modern American context) and with a similar out-of-sight-out-of-mind reasoning they were essentially deported.
But yeah, rugged salt-o'-the-earth pilgrims, brave adventurers bravely manifesting destiny. Verily, a round of grog and you get a turkey and you get a turkey and you get a snap into a slim-jim
