"Most southerners" is further than I would go, but there is no question that the South had a lot more Tories/Loyalists than the non-slaveholding areas of the North did. The really active Loyalist militias, like Tarleton's, were in the South.https://twitter.com/McRibz/status/1163542654287663104 …
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Virginia was also the largest colony of the time and that's one of the reasons why a Virginian (Washington) was chosen to lead the army, so southern colonies would see it less as just a Boston issue
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More Revolutionary War battles occurred in South Carolina than in any other state.
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