I Have a Few Questions

[Thomas Thorne]

I believe it was once fashionable among certain Southerners to believe they were the descendants of the adherents of Charles I-the Cavaliers- and the Yankees were the descendants of the adherents of Parliament-the Roundheads- who were the the principal contestants of the English Civil War . I am unaware of any serious historian who ever took this seriously.

The political ideas of Charles I-among which were the divine right of kings and royal supremacy over parliament and the courts-never gained traction among Americans.
Tom