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Originally Posted by MattyC
I think he means economically.
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I don't think he does, and it's bigger economically because there are more people, which is an effect of immigration and not a cause. Well, I guess it's a feedback effect to some extent, where more immigration = more people = more opportunities = more immigration and so on. But the original reason the USA had more people is because the climate all down the east coast made it easy to settle in the US, whereas Canada's east coast was cold and barren and the only really good accessible land was in the St. Lawrence valley. Then as time went on, Canada was settled in a thin strip of mild (relatively) climate along the border and the USA was more-or-less completely occupied