
Jason Sorens — Could Alberta Leave Canada?
The Curious Task
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Canadians Are More Conservative Than Texas, Right?
How is that measured? And how do we actually get to that sort of conclusion? Yer, so that the measure is relative to the country that you're in. So by looking at a nation wide election, you're really a controlling for perhaps any differences in party ideologies in different regions. Traditionally, maybe democrats in mississippi were more conservative than democrats in connecticut. By that measure, alberta isa more than 30 percentage points less left wing, or, if you prefer, more right wing, than the rest of canada. and so it's farther from its country than any other region in the west world.
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