Repubs don't like taxes

If they really cared about that, they'd know their taxes have gone down over the last eight years. Instead, polls have shown that Republican voters believe their taxes have gone way, way up.

I've no doubt their party leadership and the business establishment cared very deeply about taxes, but the rank and file? Not really.

Rather than to go against their "King"?

Quebec is more French than France .

Arguably, more so.

They have not changed very much since the Revolution actually, in that regard.

The British?

Um, no.

Bless your heart.

they make their government accountable , or a hell of a lot more than us .

which is the power base of the Repubs

luckily, they didn't enter the war on their behalf directly


http://www.military-history.org/blog/it-was-british-arms-that-sustained-the-confederacy-during-the-american-civil-war-peter-tsouras.htm

especially the ones who claim the US Constitution is not to be payed any attention to when it gets in the way of your agenda as did the whole Bush administration on the advice of then AG Alberto Gonzalez when he attacked Habeas Corpus in the Constitution:

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Gonzales-says-the-Constitution-doesn-t-guarantee-2622014.php

It's so difficult to find anymore.

If this were the Civil War, they would be the Confederacy. The conservative tradition of being on the wrong side of every issue and working at cross-purposes to America at every opportunity goes back a long, long way, back to before the country was even founded!

Let's re-fight yet another war.

...let's finish'em off. Confederates/conservatives, that is.

Who has the most guns? And who has the armies?

The 1% and their toadies in the colonies (ie republican types) were not happy with the way they were treated by the King. They were big shots at home and pipsqueaks in the mother country. They were treated with disdain by England.

Taxes was certainly one issue that would have kept republican types in the patriots camp. Slavery, as mentioned by someone else, would have as well. The allure of being top dogs in a new nation had to have tremendous appeal as well. Religiously, there wasn't much of a fanatical religious component that would have kept them in the God, King, Tory group.

I view John Adams as a republican. But he sided with the patriots for some of the reasons mentioned.

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It was about loyalty to an entire system based upon the idea that a single, unelected person was granted the power to rule by God. To go against him was to go against God. Loyalty to him earned you points in Heaven. His representatives, including his governors, judges and even his Redcoats were exercising divine justice and all who opposed them were not only guilty of treason but blasphemy

Also, anyone who squealed on the Patriots was handsomely rewarded.

for other reasons, not w/o some justification. I don't let it bother me and know that some Brits also feel the same about Aussies, Frogs, Asians, Africans or anyone not Anglo. Ugly stuff, racism and otherism. ~ Agree that becoming top dogs and major landowners in America was a huge motivation for the patriots. Nowhere else in the old country or world could they have risen so high because of the ancient class systems.

but Quebec was put strictly off-limits as the British wanted to keep Quebec relatively intact and not face a rebellion from their new subjects.

Glad they got drowned out before Common Sense was lost to time.