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.
Ditto the earlier Huguenot settlement at Ft. Caroline, wiped out by Spanish who eastablished St. Augustine the following year. The history of Florida would have been quite different.
I’m legendarily a descendant of one of those Spanish missionaries on the Chesapeake, by the way, that being the father of Opechancanough, half brother of Powhatan, who in turn raped an English girl and impregnated her during the Second Powhatan War, 1622 I believe. No way to prove such a thing, so it’ll remain just a legend.
And we would be living on land grants instead of title deeds.
Then again, the sinking of the Spanish Armada might of had a Divine hand involved.