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In 1954-56, Ho Chi Minh's DRV government was dramatically more popular than the souther State of Vietnam. Yet over that same time period hundreds of thousands of refugees went from north to south. Why was there such a mass movement from the region of a more popular government to a less popular one?

by /u/thehomiemoth in /r/AskHistorians

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