{"id":1315,"date":"2004-12-01T12:41:35","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T17:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/continental_divide\/"},"modified":"2004-12-01T12:41:35","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T17:41:35","slug":"continental_divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/continental_divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental Divide?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last couple nights C-SPAN has been broadcasting the CBC news program The National<\/i><\/a>. They’ve had a few segments playing up the differences between Canada and America. Canada is becoming a more diverse, tolerant, government-funded, European-type society. And we’re becoming something else.
\nA couple interesting factoids from one of the reports:
\n–Q: Do you think the father should be master of the house?
\nCanada: 21% agree
\nU.S.: 52% agree
\nMoreover in the U.S. that percentage is on the rise, while in Canada the number has been dropping from 43% in 1983.
\n–Weekly church attendance:
\nU.S.: 50%
\nCanada: 20%
\nIn the 1950s a higher percentage of Canadians claimed to attend church weekly.
\n–A greater percentage of the Canadian population is concentrated in urban areas. Forty percent of the population lives in the Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver metro areas. That’s 60% if you throw in Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa.
\nI think it’s safe to say that if the U.S. population were similarly concentrated in major cities, President-Elect Kerry would be getting ready to submit his proposals to the Democratically-controlled U.S. House and Senate.
\n–To some extent, Quebec is credited with being a driving force in the divergence between U.S. and Canadian values.
\n–Canadian “conservatives” would likely be Democrats if they were in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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