John: Thanks for your sense of balance re: the Tea Party. I totally agree with you. I also do not disagree with you a bit about South Carolina's importance during the Rev! Totally agree. However, I have an aside to one thing you said about the Brits "provoking" a civil war. If memory serves, Cornwallis was PERSONALLY iinstructed by George III ( before he came back to America with his "grand Southern Campaign plan") to put forth every effort to turn rebels back into loyalists. This is one reason why prisoners were made to take, in most cases, an oath of loyalty instead of being summarily sent to prison ships in Charleston. It's another reason why the Patriot movie was so dumbly inaccurate in having the Brits execute wounded prisoners. Ridiculous! Can you expound a bit on some evidence re the Brits inciting a civil war? Not arguing-just curious. Holley