Re: [PEN-L] Canadian polls on U.S. election

[Joel Blau]

I'm glad you still love the people of New York. But I'm not sure how the affection Canadian and Americans often feel for each other explains the persistently conservative voting patterns of some small rural communities in Atlantic Canada. Surely, you must have an explanation that is more to the point?

Joel Blau
(a New Yorker who's spending this weekend in Nova Scotia)

Kenneth Campbell wrote:

Joel writes:

Nevertheless, in some communities like
Shelburne that trace their roots back to the losers of the first
American revolution, the tradition of Canadian Toryism
persists to this day.

Oh bullshit.

The U.S. lost the War of 1812 for the primary reason that the populace
did not hate each other. Jefferson or some other at-the-helm idiot said
it was "ours but for the marching." Then they tried to march. And lost.
(And Tecumseh lost his life in the doing.)

It turns out that the people (loyalists or not) were so closely
associated, the war was lost. It was only the English and Yanqui brass
fighting.

That is why I still look across Lake Ontario and see my sisters and
brothers in New York and say: "I love Irv Weinstein."

Ken.