Mine? I wasn't alive.
Within a generation or two of arriving in the New World, you might be surprised to find how strongly people on the western side of the pond tended attach their loyalties locally. A great many of them left for opportunity, and to be quit of the stultifying culture and restrictions on the west side of the pond. Room for a man to breath, in America.
If you were on the West side of the Blue Ridge mountains in, say, 1720, you'd likely find the denizens there scoffing at your notion of loyalty, or even self identification with British anything.
Funnily enough, in the mid Atlantic colonies, no small number self identified as Dutch and German.
See again, American History.
Apologies, Courtney, this is a tangent to a discussion branch from me and shy talk regarding what American interests are and have been, which leads to how such interests influence policy, and thus why we Yanks bother about in such exotic places as the Straits of Hormuz.
I'd personally rather go to Rio.