Gee, that means only 4/5 ths of the people wanted to break away from Britain! What idiots. They are trying to imply that we shouldn't have broken off becasue 100 percent of the people didn't want to.
Something else I didn't see here, when the revolution was over we shipped a lot of the loyalist out of the country. I think that would be precedent for shipping people like Cindy S. out of the country!
I saw something about the "evacuation" of Boston on the history channel yesterday. Some 2000 odd british loyalists were kicked out of the country from Boston alone.
Actually the 1/5th figure for Loyalists is pretty darn low. Actually most of the country was very much on the fence without strong feelings either way in the years leading up to the war.
Loyalists were concentrated in New York City and especially in the South..Georgia, South Carolina, etc. A lot of the Mid-Atlantic was pretty mixed. It was New England and Virginia with most of the rebels.