Loyalists lived throughout the colonies, but their numbers were smallest, around (1%, 5%, 10%, 15%) , in places like (New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Georgia), where patriots had long pursued campaigns of political education and mobilization. Areas where (young people, native-born colonists, new British immigrants, Germans) clustered, however, tended to be loyalist strongholds. They were concentrated in (Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Georgia), New York, and the Carolina Piedmont. Elites in (Quebec, New Brunswick, Louisiana, Nova Scotia) also supported the Crown and formed a significant minority.