【答案解析】1. Although many of these historians have accepted the earlier assumption that Loyalists represented an upper class, new evidence indicates that Loyalists, like rebels, were drawn from all socioeconomic classes.
2. Where it did not, the disputing rebels of one or another class usually Loyalists.
3. Despite these vague categories, one should not claim unequivocally that hostility between recognizable classes cannot be legitimately observed.
4. Although undertones of class conflict existed beneath such hostility, the opposition was primarily geographical.
5. Yet those who stress the achievement of a general consensus among the colonists cannot fully understand that consensus without understanding the conflicts that had to be overcome or repressed in order to reach it.