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Originally Posted by Acajack
That said, some American-origin regional names do have cross-border evocations.
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How far back do comparisons go? The "Last Best West" references the American West, and lines between the British and American control of the Pacific Northwest were still disputed in the 1800s, but I don't think there's much of a history of eastern Canadians and eastern Americans seeing one another as belonging to "one region" that's cross-border overall. The border between quite a lot of eastern Canada and the US is late 1700s in origin, after the Treaty of Paris.