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Originally Posted by Abii
I was actually thinking about that as I was writing my post, but didn't have a good counter so I didn't talk about it. I honestly don't know how to reconcile this with a bullet proof argument, but the one thing I can think of is the cultural difference between white Europeans in the West and in the East. White European descendants on the West coast (and I'm including the Pararies in the mix) are a lot less "cosmopolitan" than the ones in the East. Maybe immigrants are more comfortable with voting in a party that represents the core values of European descent people in Ontario, but not so in the West as the core values of European descent people are a lot more right wing.
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White European descendants are also a lot fewer generations removed from the "old country" though out west. British Columbia has tons of people who are only two or three generations removed from the British Isles. Not sure if that makes them any more or less "cosmopolitan" than an Italian-Canadian in Northern Ontario or a Greek Torontonian.
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Originally Posted by Denscity
The conservative people in Kelowna are from Alberta. And North Vancouver has no similarity with Alberta whatsoever. Are you from out of town?
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Originally Posted by Docere
these right-wing "Albertans" in the interior
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Are there more people in interior BC that come from, or have family roots of Albertans moving west, or from west coasters moving inland?