User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-173.189.226.24-20131231235438/@comment-173.189.226.24-20140103015342

You seem to forget that Bretons are themselves descendants of the Nords, and that Reachmen are a melting pot of ALL who inhabited the Reach, including the Nords who first settled there. I see it that the Reach belongs to them the same way a man's possessions go to his children, not his distant cousins child just because that kid's more closely related to him genetically.

...The Forsworn are a group of Reachmen! Not the entire race, there are plenty of reasonable Reachmen, you can't just judge them on the actions of a single group! I'm talking about it because it's clear the Reachmen are being kept in poverty and those that own land are being muscled out of it by force. After centuries of co-existing one would expect the races to have mixed together more socially, but they haven't, which makes it clear the Nords are doing it on purpose.