The family remained in Virginia until the about 1840 when they moved to Tennessee.
To further support what was said about how the people who settled North and South came from different parts of England...my family name is Welsh though nobody I know of was from Wales....though that would fit with them being of the more conservative pro Cavalier type. My ancestor sailed out of Bristol in Gloucestershire which is in that region. The choice of location (ie Virginia) and the timing all lead me to think he must have been a Cavalier. All the pieces of evidence point to that conclusion.
“The choice of location (ie Virginia) and the timing all lead me to think he must have been a Cavalier. All the pieces of evidence point to that conclusion.”
The book Albion’s Seed certainly confirms your theory. Your ancestors’ migration was certainly the norm. From VA those original settlers migrated south and southeast. The Mayflower group/Puritans migrated across the northern border states westward, the Scots-Irish came into the Allegany mountains and migrated down the mountain chain and the Quackers arrived in PA and for the most part, stayed put.