Professor Norton believes ¾ of the colonists were revolutionary and ¼ were loyalists.

Professor Norton believes ⅖ of the colonists were revolutionary, ⅕ were loyalists, and ⅖ were somewhere in the middle.

Norton states that there is no way to estimate that number.

Norton cites John Adams’s estimation that about ⅓ of the colonists were revolutionary, ⅓ were loyalists, and the remaining ⅓ were somewhere in the middle.