re: History thread: How did we win the Revolutionary War?

Not really. At the outset, only 30% wanted independence. 30% wanted to stay with England, and 40% didn't care at all and just wanted to avoid war. The governor of Pennsylvania was outwardly opposed to the war and did everything he could to handicap the continental army from refusing to pay taxes to the continental congress, refusing to allow his state militia from fighting outside the state, refusing to send promised wagons of supplies, even refusing to mobilize his forces to defend Philadelphia from the British army.

The South was outwardly loyalist and opposed war until the British army sacked Charleston and began burning plantations. Even then, most loyalists were in either New York (under British control throughout much of the war), or in the South.