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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
The weird part is, outside of the lower mainland once you get north of Kelowna, you will find the most Albertan Albertans who ever Albertaed. Rural or small centre BCians make rural or small centre Albertans look like Liberal Ottawatavanites.
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And this is true for virtually every rural vs urban area in the country. It's actually crazy how many city folk, especially out east, have no idea this is how pretty much all of NA works. Cities lean liberal and rural areas are conservative. Doesn't matter what location they're in.
I've met so many people from Ontario who think all of the prairies is some backwoods Deliverance type area. Not realizing it's the same in their province outside of the cities.
My first reaction is to always ask them if they've ever left Toronto and visited ANY rural area in ON or QC. Because I can guarantee you every single small town in ON is way, way more conservative than Calgary or Edmonton or Regina or Winnipeg.
And it's the same in the US. Rural California, New York or Illinois are far bigger hicks than city folk in supposed hillbilly red states.
What sets apart areas that are stereotyped as backwards vs progressive is whether or not the urban centres are big enough to control the election results. In AB, we aren't quite urban enough to offset the heavily over represented rural areas. But in BC it is the opposite. Votes in the provincial election are nearly meaningless in many of the small rural areas because the population is concentrated in urban centres to the west.