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Re:The Swinging 1660s by crooked-v on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @10:41PM (#21932844)
For context, see the 'Great Ejection' starting in 1662: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ejection

I can't find any hard numbers on emigration to America because of this, but it definitely restarted a wave of Puritan emigration that had mostly stopped when Cromwell took power.

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Re:The Swinging 1660s by pjmlp on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:33AM (#21934269)
That lasts to this day, given how puritan America behaves versus Caribbean, South America and Europe.
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