All of the Following Is True About the South in the Revolutionary

All of the following is true about the South in the Revolutionary War,except

A) In the South, the Revolutionary War was a civil war.
B) Southern frontiersmen favored independence.
C) Large southern landholders generally sided with Britain.
D) Loyalists in the South were even more prevalent than the British had hoped.
E) The British sought to retain their control over the South because its natural resources were more abundant than in the North.