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Originally Posted by Aladdin Sane
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams, 1776
Approximately forty thousand Loyalists left the United States for Canada during the American Revolution. Some left voluntarily, others were forced out.
Most Americans have forgotten that they were our countrymen.
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Most Americans have also forgotten that, in addition to being a wretched brewer (not really his fault - Colonial American Beer was really awful, worse than it is now even), Sam Adams was a natural born Shit Disturber or the first water, who would have sent this country sprinting back to England's arms if John Adams had not been cut from a much more sensible cloth and thus able to blunt his excesses of Idiocy. One should not give anything he had to say any more literal credence than one should give the White House Press Secretary. He's telling it like he wanted it to be, not like it was.
That said, your summation is spot on. A ton of Loyalists ended up in Canada. Would that they had held the south as well.