The passage suggests that by the late Colonial period the tendency to cultivate metropolitan cultural models was a cultural pattern that was ______.

A．refuting a claim about the influence of Puritan culture on the early American South
B．refuting a thesis about the distinctiveness of the culture of the early American South
C．refuting the two premises that underlie Davis' discussion of the culture of America
D．challenging the hypothesis that early American Culture was homogeneous in nature

A．Without the cultural diversity of the South, American colonial culture would have been homogeneous.
B．Contributions of Southern colonials were overshadowed by that of the Puritans.
C．Convergence (not divergence) seems to have featured the cultural development of the American colony in 1700s.
D．Colonial period American culture was more sensitive to outside influence than historians acknowledged.