Which is why even regions ruled by fear will not switch on the first sight of someone new. They are not even necessarily easier to take.
It is easier and faster to take over a region by fear - how easy it is to take a region ruled by fear depends on how well it is ruled. The thing about fear (in the future, once it's used for more than the TO itself) is that you have to keep it up, while sympathy lasts longer without active reminders.
For the moment, it's largely irrelevant, it's just two ways of taking the region, they have advantages and disadvantages.
