User blog comment:JoshofBlades/Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)/@comment-219.77.48.128-20111128140626

The Nords have been independent from the Empire for a long time, and they have survived. They endured the dragon wars and all that shit - they're the hardy sons and daughters of Kyne, and they don't need the Empire. Otherwise they would've died off a long time ago. So, reasoning fail.