James’s rural Lancashire base shaped his distinct political perspective.

Evidence

Perhaps one reason for James’s less euphoric reaction to English society was that his introduction to the country had differed in important ways from those of Makonnen and Padmore. Living in Lancashire with Learie and Norma Constantine, physically remote from the more typical sites of middle-class radicalism and organized politics, James was enveloped by a more contemplative work and a more mundane politics. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1237