State-Province Analogues.

[Interregnum]

If you had to associate only one American state per Canadian province, what would you select, and what would your main criterion be?

DISCLAIMER: As at the cinema, it’s time to suspend disbelief and propose theory.

Personally, the easiest way for me to find correspondences is through what I term “urban distribution”, i.e. how the cities in a province/state are arranged, how many there are, how their pasts played a factor, among other things.

Ceteris paribus, here’s how I’d group “the ten”:

Alberta ~ Texas
British Columbia ~ California
Manitoba ~ Indiana
New Brunswick ~ Louisiana
Newfoundland-Labrador ~ Alaska
Nova Scotia ~ Maryland
Ontario ~ New York
Prince Edward Island ~ Rhode Island
Quebec ~ Florida
Saskatchewan ~ Nebraska

And just so I don’t clog the server, here’s one sample of possible city resemblances between regions:

Brandon ~ South Bend (seemingly university cities)
Portage la Prairie ~ Fort Wayne (historic trading crossroads)
Thompson ~ Evansville (disconnected from the other major metros in the region)
Winnipeg ~ Indianapolis (unquestionably the primate city)

Do introduce your own ideas, and do critique mine as well: I can post more similarities if anyone’s got further interest.

[Boris2k7]

Alberta is far more similar to Colorado than Texas... though some similarities are there.

[Reesonov]

Poor Interregnum, you don't hang out in the Canada subforum very often, do you? This kind of subject is strictly taboo. This is going to get ugly. I can only offer you this age-old piece of Albertan advice: wrap your legs around that bull tightly and hold on for dear life. Yee-haaaaaaaa!

[malek]

spare the n00b

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Reesonov

Poor Interregnum, you don't hang out in the Canada subforum very often, do you? This kind of subject is strictly taboo. This is going to get ugly. I can only offer you this age-old piece of Albertan advice: wrap your legs around that bull tightly and hold on for dear life. Yee-haaaaaaaa!

I take offense to this Texas like analogy, you are simply continuing the myth that all of us here in Alberta are a bunch of bull riding redneck cowboys!

Seriously though, I think Alberta has about a 60% Texas, 40% Colorado feel to it.

[jeffwhit]

Yes, the similarities are striking.

[habsfan]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I take offense to this Texas like analogy, you are simply continuing the myth that all of us here in Alberta are a bunch of bull riding redneck cowboys!

Seriously though, I think Alberta has about a 60% Texas, 40% Colorado feel to it.

You mean to tell me that not all albertans wear cowboy hats and drive pick up trucks with their gun racks in the back, all the while screaming YEEEHAAAA??

[Bigtime]

Well I do see mountains in both those pics!

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by habsfan

You mean to tell me that not all albertans wear cowboy hats and drive pick up trucks with their gun racks in the back, all the while screaming YEEEHAAAA??

Well I drive a Volvo S60 with my golf clubs in the back, and I only scream foooooooore!

[jeffwhit]

Originally Posted by Interregnum

If you had to associate only one American state per Canadian province, what would you select, and what would your main criterion be?

DISCLAIMER: As at the cinema, it’s time to suspend disbelief and propose theory.

Personally, the easiest way for me to find correspondences is through what I term “urban distribution”, i.e. how the cities in a province/state are arranged, how many there are, how their pasts played a factor, among other things.

Ceteris paribus, here’s how I’d group “the ten”:

Alberta ~ Texas
British Columbia ~ California
Manitoba ~ Indiana
New Brunswick ~ Louisiana
Newfoundland-Labrador ~ Alaska
Nova Scotia ~ Maryland
Ontario ~ New York
Prince Edward Island ~ Rhode Island
Quebec ~ Florida
Saskatchewan ~ Nebraska

And just so I don’t clog the server, here’s one sample of possible city resemblances between regions:

Brandon ~ South Bend (seemingly university cities)
Portage la Prairie ~ Fort Wayne (historic trading crossroads)
Thompson ~ Evansville (disconnected from the other major metros in the region)
Winnipeg ~ Indianapolis (unquestionably the primate city)

Do introduce your own ideas, and do critique mine as well: I can post more similarities if anyone’s got further interest.

Seriously, how do Quebec and Florida go together? And Bloomington is clearly the college town in Indiana.

Also, PEI is actually an island.

BC-Cali works reasonably well because both place's interiors are full of freaks.

[Blue 24]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I take offense to this Texas like analogy, you are simply continuing the myth that all of us here in Alberta are a bunch of bull riding redneck cowboys!

Seriously though, I think Alberta has about a 60% Texas, 40% Colorado feel to it.

I think Colorado, and Texas, have some Alberta in them, but when you get down to it, Alberta is made up of people from all over Canada, every prov/ter, and from all over the world, so this has made a unique place.
I think every prov/ter is unique in their own right.
I was Born in New Brunswick and now live in Alberta, but i call both home.
However, there are differences in culture, language, geography, and everything just seams old in New Brunswick, which i enjoy. The biggest difference that catchs my eye in the number of churches. In New Brunswick there seams to be more, if thats true or not i don'y know, but their churches tend to be in the old style, not in theses new odd designs.
I got side tracked, but the point is that yes their are similarities in some states and provs, but deep at the core they are different.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by habsfan

You mean to tell me that not all albertans wear cowboy hats and drive pick up trucks with their gun racks in the back, all the while screaming YEEEHAAAA??

Not many Texans do either.

[The Chemist]

Alberta is far more politically liberal than either Texas or Colorado.

[Canasian]

Qubec and Florida? Do you mean similar b/c of the resorts? Treblant/ FLA beaches, mountains?? I don't get it.
I would say Quebec is more like NY state or Vermont. THey both have similar terrain, and VT has ski resorts, and QC is a wedge between the Maritimes and Ontario- like NY is between New England and NJ / the mid atllantic.

[Reesonov]

Personally, the easiest way for me to find correspondences is through what I term “urban distribution”, i.e. how the cities in a province/state are arranged, how many there are, how their pasts played a factor, among other things.

Montreal = Miami?
Quebec City = Orlando?
?

[feepa]

This thread will be locked in less then 48 hours I bet.

[dubiousmike]

Originally Posted by Interregnum

Quebec ~ Florida

Wait? What?

Quebec doesn't really have a US analogue. But the closest would probably be Louisiana. And even that comparison does neither Quebec nor Louisiana much justice.

[shreddog]

May as well get my comments in before this puppy get's locked ...

NFLD - Michigan. A jurisdication of two disparete regions seperated by water.
PEI - North Dakota. Sparsly populated, argiculture is king.
NB - Oregon. Trees and fish.
NS - Wisonsin. Both have the largest Gaelic populations in their respective countries.
Quebec - New Mexico. Relevance of their non-English speaking populations.
Ontario - Tennesee. Both have economies where auto manufacturing and service industries dominate.
Manitoba - Oklahoma. Both have a river named the Red.
Saskatchewan - Washington. Both have a professional football team, but not a professional hockey team.
Alberta - Pennsylvania. Both are dominated by two key cities with different economic focus, but that compliment each other.
British Columbia - Arizonia. Both have economies strongly tied to mining.

Probably not the first associations that came to people's mind, but certainly as good as anything else I have seen!

[Jay in Cowtown]

I've been all over the state of Texas, I'm in the process of buying a winter residence/investment property there... rural Texas and rural Alberta are full of Cowboys and very similar... the cities in each, not so much.

I'd say Alberta is more like Colorado though.

[Greco Roman]

Manitoba is more like Minnesota. Both have only one major city so no squabbling about which city is better (ahem.........Alberta..........ahem jk), both have agriculture lands, tall grass and mixed-grass prairie, both have flat lands and rolling hill countrysides, both have vast expanses of boreal forest that include the beautiful precambrian shield, both have about 100,000 lakes including some of the largest lakes in the world, both have similar physical shapes, both are connected to eachother, and both are connected to major bodies of water. I love them both!