There will be regional differences as well.
What the Communists don't understand -- unless they have plotted *far* deeper than anyone thought, say at the level of (dang it, can't find the link [*]) -- is that Americans will *fight back*.
[*] within the last month or two I read a harrowing account of the Communists in either Korea or Vietnam, where they temporarily overran a town and were driven out after three or four days: but in that short time they had killed thousands of people, almost all of whom were either known anti-Communists, or in a position to influence opinion against the Communists by having the ear of "everyman", such as taxi-drivers, etc. The Communists were able to do this since their stooges in the town had taken years to compile lists of targets and personal information about them.
Cheers!
Hue, Tet '68?
Cloward-Piven
. . . . Article, and # 41 , # 77. - Graphic at # 82.
I think the books name is ELEANA. It describe the step by step method the communist used to take over Greece, village by village.
Written by a son who traces his mothers steps and death in resistance.