No they don't have a monopoly, but telling us that the overriding sentiment is this or that is a dogmatic approach to the understanding. It is one view of many.

For those who haven't read too many of the free New Yorker articles yet this month, here is an overview of his life: Rudyard Kipling in America
What happened to the great defender of Empire when he settled in the States?

The first paragraph:

Rudyard Kipling used to be a household name. Born in 1865 in Bombay, where his father taught at an arts school, and then exiled as a boy to England, he returned to India as a teen-ager, and quickly established himself as the great chronicler of the Anglo-Indian experience. He was Britain’s first Nobel laureate in literature, and probably the most widely read writer since Tennyson. People knew his poems by heart, read his stories to their children. The Queen wanted to knight him. But in recent years Kipling’s reputation has taken such a beating that it’s a wonder any sensible critic would want to go near him now. Kipling has been variously labelled a colonialist, a jingoist, a racist, an anti-Semite, a misogynist, a right-wing imperialist warmonger; and—though some scholars have argued that his views were more complicated than he is given credit for—to some degree he really was all those things. That he was also a prodigiously gifted writer who created works of inarguable greatness hardly matters anymore, at least not in many classrooms, where Kipling remains politically toxic.

And further down the article, a discussion of his living in Vermont and after having his drunken brother-in-law arrested and a notable trial with lots of press:

Kipling was so mortified that he decided he had no choice except to move back to England. “There are only two places in the world where I want to live,” he said. “Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can’t live at either.”

Three years later, the Kiplings gave America another chance. They arrived just when the most tone-deaf and offensive of all Kipling’s poems, “The White Man’s Burden,” was about to be published. Kipling intended it as a sort of imperial spine-stiffener, urging America to colonize the Philippines and join England in the task of “civilizing” supposedly backward nations. And, almost as soon as he landed in New York, it was already being both praised and parodied.