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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Rural Alberta is the stronghold. I can see ‘inner city’ Calgary going either way, but yeah, the outer burbs are generally pretty solid conservative ( or more accurately anti NDP).
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FWIW I consider anywhere an hour drive from downtown Calgary or Edmonton a suburb of Calgary.
The majority demographic of these towns and acreages are white collar folks, or folks who work up north, who don't have a genealogical relationship to the places they live.
The people who are culturally rural, have allegiance to which ever government is best for agriculture, or rural living. The NDP are not that, and the UCP at least pretends to be that ( I argue that they are not, but their rhetoric at least suggests that they are). The NDP rhetoric at minimum passively makes the impression that farmers, or rural folks are regressive hicks. The NDP in turn come off as holier than thou city slickers.
Truth is a politician who could tell a gopher hole from a cow's ass hole is hard to come by, but at least the UCP pretends to like small town Alberta and farmers.