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Canadians are under no illusions that we will ever be a US state. If we ever were to be annexed, we would almost certainly be a territory without voting rights
by Sanzig 2y ago
Canadians are under no illusions that we will ever be a US state. If we ever were to be annexed, we would almost certainly be a territory without voting rights like Puerto Rico.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoUS states are almost always added in pairs so that the number of Republican and Democratic states increase at the same rate. It's why Alaska & Hawaii came in the same year, why we have oddities such as the split between North & South Dakota, et cetera. So if Canada were to join as states, it would be something like a Republican Western Canada and a Democratic Eastern Canada. Or some sort of strange split that gives 2+2. Definitely not the existing boundaries, because that'd likely be an 8/2 Democratic/Republican split.
- robin_reala 2y agoYou’re saying this like it’d be a choice and not an invasion.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoYes, any considerations like this would be part of a post-invasion peace treaty.
- ipaddr 2y ago2 states or 10 the house and the office of the president would never be in republican hands. The largest population in western part is more left than California and nevermind the Canadian right is left of the Democrats believing in universal healthcare and other safety nets.
- scj 2y agoIf annexed and somehow given democratic rights, I suspect Canadians would form a protest party with the goal of budgetary shutdowns in the House of Representatives... Zero support for any legislation other than Canadian Separation. Be a poison pill. And that's the non-violent response.
- Sanzig 2y agoYep, all the US pundits talking about Canada voting mostly Democratic with a few Republican districts have it completely wrong. Canada would vote overwhelmingly for the Bloc Canadien.
- philistine 2y agoAmericans are incapable of thinking that another political party could ever exist.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoThe Quebec separatists would be particularly funny in Congress.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoI think if there were ever any real annexation of Canada, the northern states would be extended about 50 miles (annexing the majority of the population into existing states), and the rest would become "territory."