“Freedom from English crap was the reason for the revolution.”
BINGO! Now how simple was that? It was simply “F*** off, leave me alone. We don’t need you limeys anymore.” There is nothing complicated about it.
I’m not sure my Mexican gardener would agree, because he sure got religion when he showed up on Independence Day. He got a bit of a lecture with a flag in his face, lucky it wasn’t somewhere else, as well as probably lucky I forgot my pocket constitutions. At least the awkward question of if he’s a legal citizen was answered. Not a brilliant idea to show up at a DAR’s house unless the plan is to do a flag design with my plants.
People in the colonies didn’t hate England or being English before the war. Many weren’t even active in the Revolution. Many left after it was over.
They hated a distant parliament that was tone-deaf to the concerns of what were basically Englishmen without acknowledged representation in government but with obligations to furnish the state revenue and obedience.