Is There a Homegrown Movement in the South?

Viet Cong was an entity separate from although helped by the North Vietnamese regular army and Russia and China. The communists deliberately tried to depict the Viet Cong as a grassroots indigenous movement that was more nationalist than communist. Now the Vietnamese people themselves they mostly see through this as a charade because they've been around the communist for a while but there are many in the West who buy it.