04-10-2003, 06:05 AM
I was thinking about that whilst watching the monument of Saddam fall this morning. But, I recall that during and after the American revolutionary war, there was a sizeable population of loyalists in the colonies. A slim majority wanted independance and so it was had at great cost. Then, an even smaller majority wanted to unite those colonies, and even then it took quite a while and some incredible state craft to do so.