User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-71.238.33.246-20120615235713/@comment-3186821-20120616200903

LOL America the most popular country..... haha you're kidding right? America isn't very loved in other countries outside America....

But for you're original question:

I don't think they have a lot in common. But they do have this in common: Americans are all originally Britains and other Europeans who travelled west and settled in the "Wild unknown lands", killing and driving off the native americans.

The Stormcloaks are Nords who came originally from Atmora and (as the page Nord (Skyrim) says) are known as a militant people by their neighbors.