Sometimes when you look at history and the culture, you realize some are getting all the credit for things that aren’t really so.
Such is the impression given that Pilgrims were the first whites here, or the first English settlement.
This goes also for the wrong impressions about slavery in the “north” vs. “south”, and that rebels in the Revolution all were taking potshots from trees in guerilla fashion.
It just ain’t so, but it’s been promulgated falsely. As a student and as a regular citizen seeing TV and movies, that’s the impression. Just as we accuse media giving some wrong impression to try to convince people that their commie side is ok and right.
I think most of us know that St. Augustine and Jamestown and Williamsburg came before the Pilgrims, but the Pilgrims are an important part. Maybe I got more Pilgrim coverage growing up in New England, but the House of Burgesses had as much coverage as the Mayflower Compact.