However, recent scholarship has strongly suggested that those aspects of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan, such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse, were not even typical of New England as a whole, but were largely confined to the two colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
    然而，進來的學術研究強烈的顯示那些看來最為明確的請教徒的早期新英格蘭文化的一些方面，比如強烈的宗教導向和團體意識，就整體而言卻不是新英格蘭的典型特征，而是在很大程度上只局限與馬薩諸賽和康涅狄格兩個州。