[lbo-talk] Re: barbarian of the moment

[martin]

The people are still divided along somewhat similar lines, though. 
Suggests that no change was achieved beyond a change in governance. And 
perhaps not much of that.

On Dec 21, 2003, at 7:51 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:


> I vaguely remember a historian's claim that about 1/3 of the American
> colonists in the mid 1700s supported the revo, 1/3 were loyal to
> G III, and 1/3 were undecided/ambivalent.  Don't know if this
> is accurate, but I think Carrol has a good point: political
> change is not simply a product of universal consensus.