The Jamestown William Powell was in the first House of Burgesses- IIRC he was the Burgess from Jamestown itself. Was LtGov for about 6 months.
Yah, I remember reading that the Mayflower was headed for Virginia. And that they actually did stop when they did in order to brew some beer, it being unsafe to drink plain water in that era.
"But, the Plymouth colonists are cited as the forefathers of this nation. I think it’s revisionist history due to the Civil War, myself. Inexplicable otherwise."
That's a lot of it, although New England jealousy of the South's preeminence began many decades before that and in fact helped lead up to the war. Thomas Fleming's "A Disease in the Public Mind" gives a good look at what led up to the war including the need of New England intellectuals to feel like they created the country.
It's a pity that Limbaugh is feeding a new generation that same story about the New England usurpers in his children's books. But then maybe he doesn't know any better.
If you look at several of the more famous tales of the Revolution, it’s odd how you encounter a very similar story in both the south and New England, with the New England version propelled to fame and the more humble, little-known southern one relegated to being classified as apocryphal and a likely copy of the New England tale. The midnight ride of Betsy Dowdy in northeastern North Carolina springs to mind. Black Bess, her little Banker Pony sounds oddly familiar too. There are several other examples.