We'll aim for getting about one third of white male workers on our side -- that's plenty, given the experience of the American Revolution:
***** Figures on public opinion in the Revolution are obviously mere guesswork, but John Adams estimated that one third of the colonials were Loyalists; probably another third were neutral, apathetic, or opportunistic. The Loyalists were strongest in the far southern colonies -- Georgia and the Carolinas -- and in the Middle Atlantic colonies, especially New York and Pennsylvania. In those places particularly the fighting became bitter civil war with raids and reprisals. <http://www.bartleby.com/65/lo/Loyalist.html> *****
One third of them will probably join our enemies whatever we do.
Cf. "Critical Mass": <http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0208/0644.html>. -- Yoshie
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