Certainly in the early days of settlement, emigrants tended to be what the Blessed Mike calls "The Christian Taliban" or Puritans. To such people the Morris was anathema (literally - look it up!). As far as I can see, it was not until the early 20th century when general culture in the US developed to allow this sort of thing.

(Discuss, filling no more than three sides of foolscap. Do not attempt to use both sides of the paper at once).