Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-27007772-20140611204941/@comment-9601450-20150409185830

Actually no. The Stormcloaks have more of the population on their side simply because of this. All of the Stormcloaks are nord, yet the majority of the Legion, (except for the hold guards they replace and some few named NPCs)  are Imperial. In short, the Empire had to ship in other legionarres, now if Skyrim was politically divided so tidely the war wouldn't be at a stand still because a third of Skyrim plus the new legionarres should be able to beat the Stormcloaks. That suggests that the population is more stormcloak leaning, or that the Empire is just really bad at fighting. That brings up another point; I frankly think the Empire handled the Dominion war ineptly. They outnumbered the Dominion, the Empire had the homefront advantage, and yet they still couldn't win. Then Hammerfell fights and wins against the Dominion with less manpower.

Well, I just get sick of people saying "Tyrogg would have made Skyrim independent, Ulfric just wanted the throne," when it's purely speculation.