In terms of having the “marrying cousins” stereotype.

    • fresh@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      I don’t think Canada has an Alabama. As conservative as they are, Alberta is wealthy, highly educated, and they frequently vote for women and POC. They like “small government”, but also have some of the highest paid government workers in the country. I just don’t see much similarity.

      I think the comparison to Texas is more apt because they’re both conservative petro states with center left suburban sprawl cities.

      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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        10 months ago

        Ya I would agree likely no Alabama equivalent, but I would say the closest would maybe be Saskatchewan?

        • fresh@sh.itjust.works
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          10 months ago

          Saskatchewan is the birthplace of the NDP (Canada’s social democratic party), universal public healthcare (ever heard of Tommy Douglas?), and historically one of the pillars of the labour movement. It’s now the most conservative province, but still has tons of new immigrants, racial and cultural diversity, good education, and well funded government services. The SK NDP ruled almost continuously from 1971 to 2006.

          SK is much more like midwestern farm states that were formerly pro-labour pro-union hotbeds but are now more moderate or conservative, like Iowa and Wisconsin.

    • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      Here’s a tip for Americans, if you want to annoy a Canadian ask them if they’re from Alberta, if they ask why tell them they give of Alberta vibes, if you’re feeling sauce just say 'Berta vibes instead of Alberta vibes.

    • krayj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’ve always heard that Alberta is the ‘Texas of Canada’ (presumably for the oil & being politically conservative). But since Canada only has 10 provinces, I guess that would mean each province needs to represent 5 different US states.

      If Alabama and Texas are two of them, what are the other 3 for Alberta?

  • Big P@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Ask anyone in the UK and they’ll tell you the next county over from them

  • astreus@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Loving all the Scots embracing the United Kingdom in this thread by describing England as a part of their country 😉

  • moitoi@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    I don’t know. There is multiple possibilities here. Maybe Appenzell Innerrhoden where you’re at a low degree cousin of one of the members of the council at the head of the Canton. AI has just 16k inhabitants.

    But if you ask a French speaker, it will be Jura. It remember me once I went there. I saw a young woman not older than 25. She was definitely not rich. She already had 3 pregnancies and was outside in a cold foggy morning with the 3 kids walking around the small town. The region has the reputation of alcoholism too.

  • astreus@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    The fact we have an idiom “sent to Coventry” meaning to deliberately ostracise someone should tell you all you need to know.

    I went to uni in that city; there isn’t enough money in all the world to make me go back there. City of 300k people with over 3k homeless. Utter monstrosity of brutalist architecture (the university library is based on a panopticon prison, I kid you not). And the ring road! Taking your life in your hand just merging into it!

    Absolutely insane amount of crime, with one of the highest rates of child sexual abuse in the country (for context, it’s crime index is about 20% higher than London’s). And I’ve never seen so many street walkers in my life! Plus they charge, I am not joking, £20 a go.

    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social
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      10 months ago

      As an American that as been to Alabama and also Coventry, I agree

      Also the ring road is an absolute death trap. I’ve never felt more unsafe on a road