No, but "rank" is. As in, "rank order of dominance" -- which is the social order that our Patriots rebelled against in trhe 1770's, and which the Pioneers rebelled against when they crossed the Appalachian Mountains and passed out of contact with the old, "deferential society" of the Eastern Seaboard states. They would rather plunge into a wilderness and deal with the Creeks, the Shawnees, and the Hurons than suffer any longer the pretensions of lawyers, doctors, and businessmen with money in the bank.
That is your liberty heritage. Not primogeniture and social Darwinism, which is just the SOS from the last 8000 years.
The revolution of 1776 was against a crown, not against a hierarchy of ideas. The US is still fundamentally English, animated by ideas that only an English-speaking people could articulate and promote to regulate the affairs of its citizens. As for the people who colonized the Midwest and West, they colonized as English-speaking Americans, not Indians. Those pioneers might have lived simply, but they subscribed to a hierarchy of ideas that made superior to the Indians. And no apologies necessary for being superior.