I am Soooooo down for this!!!!!
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:O take us away pls
I doubt they'll take #Arkansas, so I'm screwed either way until my familial duty is complete.
North Carolina please
Not just three, all the Blue States would like to switch to province.
Hey... don't forget Vermont!
As someone who lives in California, I would love this.
We'd love to have ya!
Have a chat with Hawaii, okay? Mom wants to go before she dies but she won't go with Trump in charge. Get them on board and event the flight's domestic. Woot!
Yes. One million times yes. Let's watch the GOP fucking implode when the largest GDP State (CA) leaves their ass. It's insane they are whining about our fires... Idaho was far more on fire this year than us in California. And that was all forest, not literal neighborhoods that 100% raked their fuckin leaves.
Take Oregon and Washington and the USA is left without a Pacific Coast...LOL!
Keep it down. We don't want them figuring it out! (Also Alaska)
I live in WA and I want this more than anything.
Here's a nice compromise position - Canada becomes a republic; in exchange, the West Coast and the East Coast down to Maryland (or Virginia) join as unincorporated territories or whatever the Canuck equivalent is.
please save us from Y'All Qaeda
If anything was really done, I assume it'd be just opening up (+incentivizing) immigration. Skilled labor/health/money probably will still be huge barriers, so I think the most effect it could have would be brain drain.
It is the fact that the US is a republic that is the problem. If any US states join Canada they do it as a province of the federation.
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Speaking at a press conference last week in Ottawa, May called out the president-elect, saying, "Hey, Donald, have we got a deal for you? You think we want to be the 51st state huh? But maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? California? Oregon? Washington?
I live in California and I'd like this. But then the USA would never have a non-GOP president ever again and that's against my conscience.
The "United States" is done anyway, there's no way, ironically, to make America great again.
If there was only a way
One of the Mario bros knows how
Washington would fit right in. Western Washington is already a lot like British Columbia, and Eastern Washington is already a lot like Alberta.
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no fair man. illinois. illinois.
Everybody hates Illinois. People who live there even hate it. I was born there and promptly left.
Also lived there, also hated it. Never again
Well obviously not everyone as I love it but im ok with you guys not wanting to be there. I have a feeling if you don't like chicago you would not like toronto.
I don't have a strong opinion on Chicago, I've only spent a few days there and it was downtown in a cold snap in February. There were some nice things to do but it was expensive and overall I've had better experiences in other cities. I liked it better than my wife did, she hates the cold. I on the other hand like to go snow camping (without her).
The people in the rest of the state hate Chicago because it dominates the politics, and the few Chicagoans I know aren't a fan of the rest of the state. For awhile I lived in St. Louis but worked across the river. I still have to drive across Illinois pretty often. It's flat fields of corn and thunderstorms in the summer, and frigid and hostile in the winter. I don't really hate Illinois by any means and I didn't choose to move away - I was only two and my parents moved to the Netherlands. I actually like Champaign/Urbana, I have lots of connections there. I still wouldn't choose to live in Illinois though.
As a Washingtonian, I would LOVE for this to happen. It’s a shame she’s joking.
I mean, as a Canadian I would say come on and get this going. Hell Alaska can join as well.
Then tarriff the shit out of Trump for anything being shipped through new Canada from China lol.
Hey, take illinois. Its connected via the great lakes, and we may be #12 in terms of GDP, about 50-60%% of goods travelling by rail or road through the US have to go through us.
The Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways are busy in the Chicago area.
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