[Bubba Ho-Tep]

On the other hand, the ancestors of the South Carolina secessionists were often Tories.

As a matter of fact, apart from Major Ferguson, their commander, all of the redcoat force at King's Mountain were loyalists from South Carolina and Georgia.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

As a matter of fact, apart from Major Ferguson, their commander, all of the redcoat force at King's Mountain were loyalists from South Carolina and Georgia.

That sums it up, the hotbed of secession was the hotbed of Toryism, That class of people never change, more loyal to their luxury and bank account than to their nation and countrymen. We've still got some individuals like that today, but only in 1860-61 did they had the opportunity and audacity to set up their own political engine of greed, the so-called Confederate States of America.

[NavyCanDo]

True, but many if not most of the Loyalist (Tories) fled persecution after the war to Canada, the Bahamas, and even back to England, so to say that the secessionist were of Torie ancestry is not accurate.