WI No Puritan Colonies

What if the Puritans didn't come to America? What affects would this have on American culture, the American revolution, democracy, etc.?
 
The US doesn't end up with by far the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the First World. Other than that, not really my time period. ;)
 
In that case, where do America's Puritanical attitudes come from?
A variety of religious groups of separate origin from the original Puritan churches, which actually have now all mellowed out into liberal mainline Congregational churches with the states they founded being some of the most liberal with the lowest pregnancy rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Great_Awakening
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Great_Awakening
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Great_Awakening
 
Like I said, not at all my time period. When someone says "Puritan churches" my mind paints with a WAY too wide brush. I do have to ask, would religious conservatism had become as entrenched as it did without the original puritans? Because if thats not the case the my answer would not be necessarily wrong :p


Damn, now those are way too many awakenings. Pretty interesting to see how powerful of a motor for action a false sense of urgency to deal with nonexistant crises can be.
 
I'd like to point out that the vast majority of the descendants of the Puritans and the people who assimilated into the culture the Puritans created are culturally liberal, rather progressive in politics, and overwhelmingly vote Democratic.

Now, to answer the OP with my $0.02, the New England colonies had one of the highest birth rates of all the colonies. (Partially due to the fact that the New England region had a better pre-A/C climate than the South and Delaware Valley) So whoever is able to colonize OTL New England will get some of that demographic advantage.
Also due to the geography, northern agriculture and the abundance of rivers and proximity to the coast helped make N.E. the birthplace of American industry. So whoever settles there will also get that.

Without the Seperatist Puritans, who would settle there? Well, other Englishmen are good contenders-maybe the Quakers? Or another religious minority? Maybe even Levellers, escaping from the collapse of the Commonwealth or from the Rump Parliament? And if the English don't settle there, maybe the New Netherlanders, the Acadians, or the Portuguese?
 
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Without the Seperatist Puritans, who would settle there? Well, other Englishmen are good contenders-maybe the Quakers? Or another religious minority? Maybe even Levellers, escaping from the collapse of the Commonwealth or from the Rump Parliament? And if the English don't settle there, maybe the New Netherlanders, the Acadians, or the Portuguese?

Well the Dutch had established a few settlements along the Connecticut River that they were pushed out of due to the English encroachments. Maybe we see the Dutch and French fight over this area while the English focus on the southern colonies.
 
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