I'm not sure about that. I think the South didn't want to be communists at all. The refused elections in 1954 and 1956 which the North would have won because it had the bigger population. Also there was a large influx of refugees that fled the North to enter the South which was then ruled as a republic (through a rigged referendum).
If the South had been supportive or neutral of the communists as you say the war would have been lost long ago, or not even a war at all. Even though the Americans were there, the South Vietnamese still did much of the fighting.
I know that we are both just generalizing the details. It was a really complicated war.
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