cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/4120414
One in five Americans (20 per cent) polled by Leger this week say they would like their state to join Canada, more than double the proportion of Canadians who said they would like their country to become the 51st state of the United States. Article content
“Only 9 per cent of Canadians believe it is likely that Canada will become the 51st U.S. state. By contrast, 20 per cent of Americans would like their state to join Canada and become a Canadian province, a proportion that is higher among respondents aged 18 to 34 (30 per cent),” reads the new Léger report.
Better than living in Trumpistan.
Only if they’ll have us
Poor Colorado being left behind with the ingrates T_T
And New Mexico! Don’t forget about us.
Minnesota here. Yes, please. Pretty sure at least half the state wanted to be Canadian my whole life.
The whole west coast should just join Canada. We would make decent Canadians.
Except Los Angeles. We don’t need that kind of superficiality here!
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Hella dope Canadians, eh
Isn’t this apples to oranges?
9% of Canadians “believe it is likely Canada will become 51st state” vs. 20% of Americans “would like their state to join Canada”
Other similar polls in the timeframe put “would want to” at about 9% as well. Some are even phrased as “would vote to”.
What surprised me was the 18-34 demo who are apparently about 17% for it.
That being said, the quality of a lot of these polls aren’t great. Many aren’t random samples and come with a big disclaimer.
But, still, none have been as high as 20%. That’s crazy high as a national average. Really curious breakdown by state. The most support for joining to USA is AB and it’s still around just 13%. This suggests the most “I want to leave” state wants to join Canada much more than the most “I want to leave province” wants to join the USA.
Good catch, those are two very different things being compared as if they are equivalent. I would expect that the number of Canadians who actually want Canada to get annexed by the US is lower than the number who think it is likely.
I don’t want my state to join Canada (it’s a red state far from the border), but I want to immediately move to one of the states that would be joining Canada. So I think the poll results would be even higher if the question was asked in a way to include people who would answer like I did.
I can’t believe this is a new thing for the rest of my life….
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And at least 3 out of 5 of those people live in California.
Oddly, I feel Mexico is a better fit for my state of California, especially with their recent cool shift in an educated President. Maybe we can get a sort of E.U. style thing except for Canada, Mexico and blue states, plus whoever else would make sense.
I want to be Canadian so BAD, been looking to move for the past 5 years. That looks less and less like a possibility. Y’all don’t need more people competing for housing. Please take all the West Coast, which is and always has been an inseparable part of Canada.
Seems low.
