User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-71.238.33.246-20120615235713/@comment-4443682-20120616132822

America is the most "popular" if you define popularity as the place most of the people on this planet who are unsatisfied with where they are want to come to. Our own President may not like America, but a lot of other people do. America started as 13 colonies of a powerful empire. We united, acheived independance, and then when that empire came back for a rematch, we beat them again. Since then, we have risen to becoming the most powerful nation on this planet. No one's perfect, but on balance, America has done a lot more good and abused its power a lot less than any other country throughout history.

As to the "Patriots =/= Americans" comment, the original association was correct, the Stormcloaks are the rebels in Skyrim, just as the Patriots were the rebels in the American Rovolution.