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Why did some people in the low country of South Carolina tend to oppose independence from Great Britain in years before the American revolution

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In the end, many Loyalists simply left America. About 80,000 of them fled to Canada or Britain during or just after the war. Because Loyalists were often wealthy, educated, older, and Anglican, the American social fabric was altered by their departure. American history brands them as traitors.

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