A linguist friend once told me that language patterns in North America run north/south. For whatever reason, culture and migration seem to work the same way. I

A linguist friend once told me that language patterns in North America run north/south. For whatever reason, culture and migration seem to work the same way. If you are from BC, you are more likely to travel to or move to California than you are Nova Scotia or Florida. Likewise, if you are from Montana, you probably feel more comfortable in Alberta or Saskatchewan than you would in New York or Alabama. While our governments function very differently, NAFTA has removed most of the institutional barriers preventing the natural movement of money, people and culture between the two places.