Its not super important given everything else in this fascist nonsense, but a huge number of early British (inc. Scottish and Irish) settlers were criminals transported to penal colonies in the US. It was deliberately done to dispose of unwanted in their own country. archive.org/details/whit...
I've met Europeans who have the attitude that they dumped their losers on America and that's why they were able to put together the society they have now. Not unexpectedly, they are opposed in allowing in any migrants/immigrants except from other specific Euro countries (i.e. no eastern/southern).
That book btw is a vitally necessary antidote to the self-absorbed, self-congratulatory, self-flagellating BS of Vance's hillbilly hootenanny.