sentences:  It was a struggle of mostly lower-class citizens, who made up the majority of the population of North Carolina, and the wealthy ruling class, who composed about 5% of the population, yet maintained almost total control of the government.Of the 8,000 people living in Orange County at the time, an estimated 6000 - 7000 of them were in support of the Regulators.Governor William Tryon's conspicuous consumption in the construction of a new governor's mansion at New Bern fuelled the movement's resentment.