I have read that it was actually closer to a 50/50 split in sentiments.  I would consider it a combination of civil war and revolution.

I agree; the colonists were British subjects and trying to be loyal. they had a different view of how they should be treated by the Crown (after many years of benign neglect) and when push came to shove with the Crown (revolution) the disagreement among the locals of said revolt was the civil war element.Not so much fish or fowl but fish and fowl….BTW, most sources make the %'s about 1/3 for, 1/3 against, and 1/3 wanted the trouble to “go away”.

Banner of Geo. Calvert (Lord Baltimore). according to Wikipedia the only state flag based on British heraldry.

I could if it would keep a group that was even lower than they in their place… driving force for poo southern whites; they were free and the slaves weren't. In some ways the slaves were better off than the poor whites, just not free.

A fellow I know, when asked if he had relatives from Georgia replied. ” Are they white? Then again, it doesn't matter….”Seems a relation was a plantation owner and was one of the white guys in the woodpile.

How do you figure racial profiling into this?  I had not heard of/thought of that angle within this issue.

In most societies people tend to marry folks that are the norm for that group; in early (pre-historic) peoples this might just mean those deemed likely to survive to raise the family, if you will.In equatorial areas that likely meant blacker… more melanin to make Vit D. and reduce the skin cancer issue… high latitudes little skin was thought an indication of health; they had less sun and a high fish oil diet. In each case the reverse (light in low lats. and dark in high lats. was often associated with sickness and hence less desirable in a mate).Simply the social norm on health and beauty becomes a cultural type of evolutionary process as the stereotype gets to mate more and more genes in the pool. Eons later these same traits are the physical phenotypes associated with the descendants of these folks. The stage is now set to use these phenotypes to profile the descendants, regardless of any other background information.Do we really want to judge someone by their far removed ancestors?

I mark it down to: 2 mch txtng  😉

This is what many call cultural selection… subjects tend to mate with types that are considered the healthful norm for their society… will lead, over time, to a stereotypical look from cultural areas and hence our current problem with racial profiling.