Thread: Stronger ties -- Mexican-US border cities or Canadian-US border cities?
View Single Post
  #6  
Old Posted Jan 2, 2018, 4:25 PM
10023's Avatar
10023 10023 is offline
Registered User
  
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: London
Posts: 21,146
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThePhun1 View Post
How can it be anything but the US-Canadian border? Until 9-11, you could just walk across the US-Canadian border. There's no language barrier either.
Until 9/11 you could do that in Texas too.

And "the border" isn't really at the actual border. You need to drive 45 mins or an hour from the border toward San Antonio before you reach a proper checkpoint. There's not a whole lot keeping one from wandering between McAllen and Reynosa, on the other hand.

There's not much of a language barrier, either. Everyone on the Texas side speaks Spanish.
__________________
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
Reply With Quote