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Well this was something I was curious about since I saw it in another thread recently and was looking for the board's opinion.
So I've read that roughly 40% of the population of the Colonies supported the American revolution while only maybe 20% were hardcore Loyalists, with the remaining 40% being neutral or simply caving to the winning side as the war went on.
However I've also heard numbers as high as 55% for support for the revolution and as low as 10% for the Loyalists, but on the flip side I see it bandied about by many modern right pundits that only 30% of the Colonials (or as one put it "1 in 5" that I read) supported the Revolution.
So what would be an accurate estimation of support for the war on either side?