[wardlow]

Originally Posted by Docere

With all due respect, Woodward seems to have a very superficial understanding of Canada. He should stop his analysis at the border.

True. What attention he did pay to Canada was to briefly create an extremely glossy, over-idealized picture of French Canada/Quebec as this kind of pure society. So I do take a critical view to his arguments, but the idea of individual 'nations' within North America is interesting, and got me thinking about Winnipeg and its distinction within Western Canada (hence my long rant above).

Here's another way at looking at Winnipeg's place on the continent:

Interesting. Seems to me to show the Winnipeg region as being the northernmost extent of the comparatively dense Midwest, rather than the sparsely populated West.