text: Some East Coasters go on and on about their "Loyalist" ancestors the same way that some folks in the Southern USA go on about their Racist Confederate ancestors.
  
  There is nothing to take pride in about having ancestors who were willing to suffer under a literally insane autocrat. George III was nuts. 
  
  The East Coast is the last refuge of Religion in Canada. Very reactionary, even violent. Christians assaulted people trying to make use of their new freedom to shop on Sunday.
  
  Perhaps Cornwallis is a fitting symbol of their mind set.