This article discusses cultural evolution, not political formation. Here are some other sources that directly back up what I wrote:

Avihu Zakai. Exile and Kingdom: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992.)

Jack P. Greene. The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800. (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina, 1993.)

Claude S. Fischer. Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character. (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2010.)

Herbert George Gutman. Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America. (New York: Knopf, 1976).

Mary K. Geiter and W. A. Speck. Colonial America: From Jamestown to Yorktown. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

Eric Luis Uhlmann and Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks. “The Implicit Legacy of American Protestantism.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 45, no. 6 (2014): 992–1006.

Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification, edited by John T. Jost, Aaron C. Kay and Hulda Thorisdottir. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009).