Jerry,

You may be right – you’re attributing this to the cold war affect I suppose. More generally, it is something of a mystery why Alberta and Saskatchewan, with similar immigrant demographics, have had such different political histories, with Sask much more left than Alberta. Anyway, the pro-and anti-Americanism thing is very difficult to judge because a lot of Canadians are both. They may, e.g., hate the Bush admin, yet still feel a common bond with Americans. Many Maritime Canadians identify with New England, and I imagine many of them are like the blue states, anti-Bush. The Canadian polls that I remember had Quebecers most commonly against the recent Iraq war; but Quebecers love to visit Maine and Florida and identify with Americans in lots of ways. As for the Canadian Scots-Irish, some have a tradition of anti-Americanism because of their loyalty to the crown, and to Canadian difference that date from the first American civil war; yet at the same, time they can identify with their USAmerican ethnic kin in numerous ways. For this and other reasons, there was a fair bit of tolerance for southerners in the various British North American colonies during the second American civil war, though I suppose fear of the northern army was paramount. Anyway, it’s a tough one to unpack.