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Originally Posted by nekokami
Actually, I don't think the past is irrelevant. That's not what I meant about Boston. I think the past isn't as uniform as you've been implying. You've described motivations for the founding of the US that were not held by the majority at the time of the Revolution, let alone before that or after.
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From what I have read about the American Revolution, about 30% of the American colonists actively supported it, an approximately equal number (ie another 30%) actively opposed it, and the other 40% just didn't want to get involved, so it's perhaps untrue to say that it was a "popular" uprising.