The heartland of Alberta-first, pro-American sentiment has always been rural southern Alberta, a region that was settled by 600k American immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century.
So maybe Albertans who fret about unassimilated immigrants are looking in the wrong place. By the second generation, immigrants to NE Calgary almost all adopt Canadian norms. Meanwhile, the great-grandchildren of immigrants from Oklahoma, Ohio, and Texas still cling to old allegiances and cultural values, and don’t seem to have reconciled themselves to being Canadian.
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