[mstar]

The Southerners who contributed to winning the Revolution often had very little in common with the losers that led their states into rebellion.

and your examples are. . .

[Colonel Kangaroo]

and your examples are.

The Overmountain men who won at King's Mountain. Not only did they have little in common with the low country hotheads, a large number of their descendants were mountain Unionists in the Civil War.