[El Gato]

Actually you are quite funny.....educate yourself and go look up the ethnicities of free colonists here at the time of the revolution. Mostly English, Dutch, French Huguenots and a few others.....and the leaders were almost exclusively English descended

And the Germans, especially in Pennsylvania but elsewhere as well. Even today, more Americans with European ancestry have some German ancestry. Much of that did come later, and it wasn't true during the colonial period, but there was a significant minority of Germans even then.

Of all those you listed, plus the Germans, only the English had much of history of republican government behind them. The rest adopted it after they came here, just as subsequent waves of immigrants have.

[wardaddy]

Actually, there were quite significant Dutch, German, French and Italian Enlightenment philosophers.

No one to my knowledge had a Republican form of government prior to ours.

The western European immigrants were not tabula rasa when they arrived here. They brought traditions and culture which held a fair amount of commonality.....which was crucial in my view.