Not entirely true, historically speaking. Virginia established the Church of England because their dominant, majority Anglicans were English. They disdained the Scotch-Irish and disenfranchised them, forcing them into the Shendandoah Valley and beyond. Neighboring NC, having a high percentage of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians as well as other dissenters, was a different story, the CoE was established but largely ignored. As far as the modern Episcopal Church in the United States, I wouldn't know. It's a liberal, co-opted, dead church for the most part, regardless of structure. There remain a few individual conservative, traditional Anglicans, a few of whom are on FR but the church on the whole is not.