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In reply to the discussion: Regarding a civil war: white Supremists don't have [View all]haele
(15,406 posts)- the British habit of quartering their soldiers in local taverns and civilian houses.
The revolutionaries tended to camp out, not commendeering small farming communities, messing with daughters and scrounging through a householder's personal larders and cellars.
Also, sadly as to the American view of society, the British tactic of offering freedom to slaves for information or to support the British army. That certainly didn't go over well in the plantation based areas, North or South. Nor was any of this appealing to non-English colonists, forced British Isles Emigrees, or those who managed to work themselves out of indentured servitude and started to set up lives of their own.
Of course, when the French came in and turned the tide, support also increased. Lots of people will just wait to see who's going to win before they choose a side.
Under 30% of American colonists actively supported the Revolution when it started.
However, around 50% actively supported it by the time it ended, and another 20% were "favorable" to it - just because they wanted the British Army to go back to England and leave them alone as nd tend to their own businesses.
Haele