[dcolkitt]

> The UK does an extremely bad job of teaching its historial "religious" conflict, which was rarely about doctrine so much as temporal power-politics.

I disagree. There really is no way to understand the English Civil War without understanding the religious disputes at its cores. Yes, it was a power struggle. But for the most part, many if not most of its major players were fighting out of deep-seated religious convictions. This most certainly includes Cromwell.

The reverberations of this conflict still color our modern-day ideological conflicts. The Royalist strongholds during the conflict are still the areas of England with the highest Anglican identification. Anglican identification is still the strongest predictor of Tory support. The Red/Blue-state divide in America is largely the same map of what areas were settled by Cavaliers and what areas were settled by dissenters.

[rjsw]

The map of Royalist areas also matches that of support for Brexit.

[notahacker]

An interesting idea but tenuous. The Parliamentary homeland in the southeastern counties mostly voted for Brexit outside London, Cambridge and Oxford [Oxford being a royalist redoubt surrounded by Parliamentarians on the Civil War map rather than the reverse]. The Remain voting areas of England were mostly conurbations which didn't exist during the Civil War, some of them like Liverpool being in predominantly Royalist areas. Overall, the local population didn't get much say in which areas were occupied by which troops back then either.

[captain_price7]

That last line is interesting. Can you please provide any links for further reading?

[danarmak]

The book /Albion's Seed/, and this review of it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-se...