"The Shot Heard 'Round the World": The Coming of the American Revolution - showing on PBS

it’s a fascinating description of how the United States culture as an independent country was formed, mostly from unwise British taxation on the colonies.

If Cascadia is to become its own culture, then parallels of this development ought to be encouraged.

Update: Who started and maintained the conversation teaching the American people of liberty? It was the legislatures of the colonies and the lawyers and other leaders within the colonies. They were all good writers and orators.

Interestingly, Britain learned from its American mistakes in the development of the Dominion of Canada.

Update 2: Here's a scene from the Gettysburg movie where Martin Sheen portraying Gen. Robert E. Lee rides onto the field, and the volunteer re-enactors spontaneously rushed him and started cheering and shouting. Martin was shocked, but held character. So did the horse portraying Traveller. The re-enactors didn't see Martin, they saw Gen. Lee. Even after more than a century, Gen. Lee held a place in their hearts time couldn't break nor diminish. That's an enduring culture and that's what needs to happen here if Cascadia needs to be a people of their own.