Quoted message said:Gary S. <Idontwantspam@net> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:To my perspective, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces are clearly "eastern" Canada. Potentially,
one could include Ontario and Nunavut if you look at eastern Canada as the eastern half, but
generally people do not think halves, but thirds.
West and East in Canada are a question of Attitude. BC, for example, thinks of everybody else as
culture-free eastern [censored]. PEI thinks of everybody else as stuckup western [censored]. Albertans
think of Manitoba as central. Manitobans think of Ontario as eastern, but themselves as western.
This is because Manitobans are too shy to think of themselves as central.
Ontarians hardly thinks of anybody else at all, even other Ontarians. Each Ontarian is firmly
convinced of a variant of the Ptolemeic theory of the universe.
Good thing nothing like that happens in the US. ;-)
Your Ptolemeic theory would explain many people's driving, however.
Stereotypes based on where people live can get amusing, and often are exploited in pop culture.
If I move north a few dozen miles into New Hampshire, will I suddenly become more politically
conservative, or is there some transition time?
Does the water on each side of the Connecticut River differ between Vermont and New Hampshire?
Happy trails, Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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