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Originally Posted by jd3189
Just an interesting thing I wanted to do to gather how similar and different Canada is compared to it's southern neighbor.
For this discussion, I am aware that the number of federal sub-entities are different. But certain states/provinces have similar history and roles in each country. But nuance exists and we may not all agree.
Ontario appears to be like New York ( has the largest city which is also very cosmopolitan) and California (most populous subdivision, center of film industry as well unless that spot is also for British Columbia).
Quebec has characteristics of both Louisiana ( French influence) and Texas( feels itself to be independent)
British Columbia, once again, has some similarities to California and the rest of the West Coast ( since it, along with Washington State and Oregon, are collectively the Pacific Northwest).
I'm not too familiar with the other provinces ( and we can stick with just the provinces rather than include the territories). What do you guys think and which states share similarities with which province.
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As Beedok says, the scale is different.
One way to view this is
Ontario = the U.S. Northeast
Quebec = the U.S. South
seeing the way the new capital was deliberately selected to be the border between those two Canadas. (French Canada and English Canada.) Exactly equivalent to Washington DC and for the exact same reason.
The respective weights are also "similar".
I would oppose to any view that has Ontario considered as equivalent to one state.
Ontario alone constitutes most of Anglo-Canada. By itself.
Think about that, from an U.S. perspective. Imagine there's one state that's most of the country.
All things considered, I think the easiest way to compare Canada with the USA is to slightly modify the current USA:
New England, the BosWash corridor, and the Midwest all merge into a single U.S. state. That state is "Ontario".
Mexico gets annexed. It's the 51st U.S. state. Still smaller than the "Ontario" described above. That 51st state is "Quebec". Speaks another language and feels foreign to "Americans".
Other 20-30 states that are left after the mergings that created "Ontario": no changes. (Well, I guess if you wanted you could actually do small changes to come even closer to mirroring Canada, like merging WA/OR/CA to create a single West Coast state equivalent to BC and which would then be much closer to matching the relative "Single West Coast State" weight of BC compared to "Greater Yankeeland" Ontario and "Annexed Mexico" Quebec)
That slightly altered USA of 2022 is pretty close to looking like Canada.