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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
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.
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I agree but it's also worth pointing out the stranglehold conservatives have on the city of Calgary which is unlike anything you'd see in BC or Ontario (though the Ford brothers seem to be wielding a similar playbook for Ontario).
They use the populist mythology of Alberta identity, oil and gas dollars, "common sense" issues and city folk who still see themselves as rural at heart in a way that you just can't discount as rural vs urban.