Most American territories are treated pretty poorly, and people don't even know that they are American territories.
The United States has five permanently inhabited territories:
Puerto Rico: Located in the Caribbean Sea
U.S. Virgin Islands: Located in the Caribbean Sea
Guam: Located in the North Pacific Ocean
Northern Mariana Islands: Located in the North Pacific Ocean
American Samoa: Located in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,200 miles southwest of Hawaii
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By what measure? I don't see any blue or purple states voting for someone like Danielle Smith as governor.
Alberta looks like a lot of states politically. Metro areas are fairly liberal, rural areas very conservative. I don't know that many US metro areas that vote as conservatively as Calgary does though.
This data is a couple years old. I can provide links to the sources if you want.
Per cent of population who are highly religious
Texas 64
Colorado 47
Massachusetts 33
Alberta 29
Per cent who think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases
Texas 50
Colorado 36
Massachusetts 22
Alberta 8
Per cent who believe gay marriages should be not be recognized
Texas 46
Colorado 31
Massachusetts 20
Alberta 22
Per cent who support Trump
Texas 52
Colorado 42
Massachusetts 32
Alberta 32
The U.S. is just way more socially conservative than Canada, pretty much across the board.
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Minor revision please. Gives more options to get from Alberta to the coast, plus there’s some good camping in NW Montana and Idaho. I’m sure we can persuade some mouth breathers to clear out of that zone with some kind of “free Subaru / mystery box” offer if they move east or south?
That part of Idaho that you circled is the heartland of crazy. Driving the US 95 through there you feel like you're trespassing on the private land of a giant cult compound.
While we're at it, the line through Washington and Oregon needs to be way closer to the coast. That is a serious pocket of crazy.
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Abortion is a non issue in Canada. The federal government deems it legal and passes it onto the provinces. Almost all of them provide legal abortion up to 24 weeks.
Guns would be an interesting one, I think it would be high for Alberta.
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Abortion was a non issue in America too, until it wasn't. Anyone who brought up women's health and worrying about losing rights to that procedure was (and is) told that it isn't something to worry about.
It's been less than ten years that abortion has been available in PEI. Brian Mulrony tried to ban it when he was PM decades ago and the socially Christian right has only grown stronger since
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This data is a couple years old. I can provide links to the sources if you want.
Per cent of population who are highly religious
Texas 64
Colorado 47
Massachusetts 33
Alberta 29
Per cent who think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases
Texas 50
Colorado 36
Massachusetts 22
Alberta 8
Per cent who believe gay marriages should be not be recognized
Texas 46
Colorado 31
Massachusetts 20
Alberta 22
Per cent who support Trump
Texas 52
Colorado 42
Massachusetts 32
Alberta 32
The U.S. is just way more socially conservative than Canada, pretty much across the board.
Please explain electing Danielle Smith. These are not numbers that should ever result in a 'Smith' type as premier, correct? Or these are polling numbers that are pretty much useless when it comes to who forms the government?
Because of you look at an AB political map it looks almost exactly like an Illinois map. A couple bright blue areas surrounded by a sea of red. And yet Illinois is always one of the more progressive states.
So I guess that's what it shows - even the most 'progressive' states lag significantly behind Canada's least progressive provinces?
Please explain electing Danielle Smith. These are not numbers that should ever result in a 'Smith' type as premier, correct? Or these are polling numbers that are pretty much useless when it comes to who forms the government?
Because of you look at an AB political map it looks almost exactly like an Illinois map. A couple bright blue areas surrounded by a sea of red. And yet Illinois is always one of the more progressive states.
So I guess that's what it shows - even the most 'progressive' states lag significantly behind Canada's least progressive provinces?
Albertans, especially in the cities, are more fiscally conservative than socially. There’s also huge ties to oil and gas obviously. People vote for their own interests and the NDP has a reputation of big spenders who hate oil, so here we are.
Most of us have lived our entire lives under Conservative rules, and things have been pretty good. It was only recently that they started courting the wackos who want to ban abortions, free healthcare, and the gays.
Albertans, especially in the cities, are more fiscally conservative than socially. There’s also huge ties to oil and gas obviously. People vote for their own interests and the NDP has a reputation of big spenders who hate oil, so here we are.
Most of us have lived our entire lives under Conservative rules, and things have been pretty good. It was only recently that they started courting the wackos who want to ban abortions, free healthcare, and the gays.
There also seems to be more old school libertarian types in Alberta. People who might be morally opposed to something, but still do not believe the government should be legislating stuff around it. I know people for example who are morally opposed to abortion on some level, but are still "pro-choice" when it comes to the legal side of it. Just because they don't like, doesn't mean it should be illegal.
My gut feeling tells me that religious conservatives in the U.S. are less libertarian and rather believe that the government should be used to dictate morality.
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Negotiate? Trump is going to hang them out to dry so Ukraine is desperate. He’s giving them no choice. It’s like threatening to throw your 6-year-old out of the house if they don’t eat their vegetables and saying you’re a great parent because they complied.
It's pandering for a dictator's favour. The long term implications of letting Russia meet it's imperialist goals by conquest isn't peace. It's capitulation.
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When you aren’t going to stop a more powerful nation massacre the weaker nation and you are not concerned with who ends up with what territory peace making is easy on every front.
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* The definition in the Pew study cited is "any adult who reports at least two of four highly observant behaviors – attending religious services at least weekly, praying at least daily, believing in God with absolute certainty and saying that religion is very important to them — while not reporting a low level of religious observance in any of these areas." https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...e/?state=texas
Alberta is not included in the study, but I used the data from an Angus Reid poll that defines religiously committed as "hold a strong belief in God or a higher power and regularly attend religious services." https://angusreid.org/religion-in-canada-150/
The Conservatives win in Alberta all the time because they run on resentment of Ottawa, and there’s a strong anti-tax sentiment in this province. However, Albertans still pay high taxes by American standards (I haven’t looked into it, but I’d wager higher than Colorado*), and express strong support things like universal public health care and education.
As for why Smith won the UCP nomination, it’s because only a tiny fraction of the population participates in party leadership races, and the UCP were taken over by rural delegates who were furious about covid mandates. But even there, Albertans got vaccinated for covid at higher rates than the population of Colorado.
Alberta
1 dose: 82 per cent
2 doses: 78
Colorado
1 dose: 82 per cent
2 doses: 72 per cent
Political parties today are vulnerable to being taken over by small but extreme elements because social media enables them to organize and bypass gatekeepers.
* Edit: Found this table showing Albertans pay higher income taxes than Californians, and much higher than Colorado.
