Those who pose the question need to grasp Church History.
The answer is probably most easily traced to the advancement of different Christian denominations over the globe over time.
Same reason we refer to “Latin” America instead of the English or German or French “Colonies”.
The “Plantations” were due to Dutch Reformed plantations of their faith abroad.
The British Empire “Colonized” the New World and with it brought the Church of England (Anglicans).
The Spanish brought the Romanized Catholic Church.
Deists were rather late comers to the game and appealed more to Rationalism than to faith through Christ.
Same difference in Colonists, Settlers, Plantations, Pioneers, and Missionaries, not to mention Shakers, Quakers, and a litany of other belief systems.
Accidents of history. How different thinsg would have been if the large Spanish colony in the Cape fear area had taken hold. It was a much large effort than that in Jamestown, and if it has survived then the Spanish missions in the Chesapeake arrive would have continued. With a Spanish base in the area, the Raleigh would not have attempted a settlement at Roanoke, and no Virginia settlement in the Chesapeake.