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A third kind of Loyalist consisted of people
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who lived out in the hinterlands in the backcountry away
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from the eastern seaboard.
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And this is for a couple of reasons,
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but one of the main ones is,
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if you think about it the main vehicle
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or one of the main vehicles for radical ideas
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would have been newspapers.
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And newspapers largely circulated in large port cities.
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And I've quoted already a number of times from the Boston Gazette,
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which would have been hard to get out in the hinterland somewhere.
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Tories called the Boston Gazette--