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One in five Americans (20 per cent) polled by Leger this week say they would like their state to join Canada, more than double the proportion of Canadians who said they would like their country to become the 51st state of the United States. Article content

“Only 9 per cent of Canadians believe it is likely that Canada will become the 51st U.S. state. By contrast, 20 per cent of Americans would like their state to join Canada and become a Canadian province, a proportion that is higher among respondents aged 18 to 34 (30 per cent),” reads the new Léger report.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Canada has a functioning government. Sign me up!

[–] anomnom 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s gotta be way more than 1/5 in VT. Half the houses have combo Canadian/US flags hanging. And have for years. They’re in danger of having a different meaning now though I fear.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It would be amazing if we could have Washington and Oregon in Canada... :)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (13 children)

And California, make a land bridge between Canada and Mexico! Plus Canada would jump from 9th largest GDP in the world to 3rd largest!

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hell, I'll vote for my state to join just about any country with a functioning healthcare system.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't believe canada is perfect but the US is really fucking bad, so it would probably be an improvement.

Though enemies of the US would probably be cackling at it dissolving. US conservatives really are a heady cocktail of traitors and absolute fucking idiots.

[–] Kecessa 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Red States could finally achieve their dream of being third world countries 🥰

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Rather than third world states?

[–] Kecessa 9 points 3 months ago

Oh without blue states to help them they still have a long way to go to reach the point where they should be considering their political decisions.

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[–] Randomocity 26 points 3 months ago (6 children)

The way they word the contrast between Canadians and Americans is extremely biased."9 percent of Canadians believe they will become the 51st state", not that they want to, just that they believe it will happen. While "30 percent of Americans would like their state to become part of Canada". If you asked the Canadians if they want to become US state I guarantee it would be lower

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What would have been interesting: How many Canadians would like an American state to become part of Canada?

I wouldn't want any of them to join my country.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As a Prairie guy, I'd love to have MN join us

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

As a Minnesotan, yeah alright

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look on the bright side, you'd probably get the northern states like Vermont. 😀

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I'm not Canadian, I'm European. I just would find it interesting to know, since I was told that Canada overall resembles more Europe than the USA.

The political left in the U.S. often aligns more closely with the center or even the moderate right in European countries, due to America's overall more conservative political spectrum.

So they would get an influx of center to far-right citizens. Can't think why one would want this.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Canadian Province of Oregon has a very nice ring to it!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

And Washington! Also all of New England!

[–] allo 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

On behalf of Washington State I accept this offer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Oregon also!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Perhaps we can organize a referendum

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Canada please decline this offer until a sane generation is old enough to vote, the current ones are broken

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Oh don't worry 99% of us have been seeing the online requests and cackling at the sheer fucking hubris lmao

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I'd love to see a map of support. I imagine the further north, the more likely to want to merge.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If all the nice Americans leave to join us, what happens with the rest? They’re gonna attack us!

If you’re a nice American and want to join us, bring fighter jets and nuclear weapons and stuff with you please!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Canada could have nuclear weapons within 6 months if they needed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

California for succession! But all BS aside I feel like the US is going to have a civil war over all of this because over half of us don’t want to live in stupid tecno patriarcal oligarch dipshitville with a deranged game show host frontman

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is almost as stupid as making Canada the 51st state.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I'd sign up for it. Illinois isn't too far from Canada, and I'd live to see how the US gets by without Chicago. Good luck rerouting all your freight to avoid border crossings lol. Sigh. It'd never happen in a million years though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Bet its even higher for some states.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Nah, we're good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No, thank you. Stay home, please, and fix your problems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Our problems are and have been for 160 years one thing: The South.

Leaving them behind is fixing them.

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