> The seat of the throne moved to the white house, but the USA is still culturally close to the UK

> Except for the religion, which seems to come from The Netherlands and Germany.

This underestimates how Germanic, Irish, Italian, and Hispanic America is.

For example - Hot dogs, Hamburgers, Budweiser, Chrysler, Rockefeller, Disney, the New York Times, Christmas Trees, Lutheran congregations, Mennonite congregations, etc are all German.

And having stayed in the UK for extended periods for work, it is significantly different culturally speaking than much of the US.