There were quite a few Tories in the south mainly from the upper crust. Out fitted an number of cavalry units that earned a reputation for “No Quarter” fighting.
I never said there weren’t any
I said where most where
Middle north colonies
Least
Georgia and New Hampshire and Massachusetts least
Since unlike south haters here I’m about empiricism regardless how it fits my world view
Why did the South have less
A) frontiersman in their western territory
B) many southern colonist were birthright denier by English class system
C) many from parts of Britain that had been rebellious
D) the English were promising to free slaves and abolition was further along there...which scared northern slave owners too remember this is before the Cotton Gin
Tories?
Tories were on the other side in the Revolution. And like George Washington’s beloved neighbor Sally Fairfax they lost their property and left town, for England or Canada.
There was a cultural affinity between the South and England as far as culture-
‘In his essay “First Fathers: The Colonial Origins of the Southern Tradition,” Bradford writes, “I must begin at the beginning, with the idea of the South as it existed in the minds of Southerners-to-be. For that evidence we must look to the poets. For they dream first and better than do other men….” He then describes the 17th century vision of Virginia as a place of abundance and opportunity where the best of English rural society could be recreated and made available to all who were ready to risk and work.’
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/07/m-e-bradford-agrarian-aquinas-clyde-wilson.html