The 'Outer States'?
Look at the front page of any newspaper in those countries, what do you see?
Their fave movies? TV shows? Celebrities? Politicians? Music? All American.
Heck, you know what The Fall and The Jam have in common? They're UK groups whose singers actually sang in Bri'ish as opposed to American! What does that say about the country that invented the language when it's reduced to emulating the shadow of its Prodigal Son?