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We got lucky here (in Atlantic Canada). In a lot of ways. Low population. Low density. Largely rural. We're actually the sort of people conservatives claim to be. Independent. Like to make our own way. Don't like a lot of government.
But we know when we *all* have to haul the sail around or get out of the mine. Maybe it's because our traditional industries were all very team orientated.
It's one thing to be independent and stoic. It's another to be selfish and stubborn.
It's one thing to be independent and stoic. It's another to be selfish and stubborn.
I think this is why we went from reliably PC to reliably Liberal.
We didn't change at all. Conservatism did.
We didn't change at all. Conservatism did.
To be clear, I don't think we're superior people. But societies exist as reflections of their collective experiences. We have much less immigration than the rest of Canada. People leave, but they mostly always come back. We all have fishermen and miners in our family trees.
Everyone understands poverty because they've lived it or watched someone live it or worried about living it. We understand losing people because we gave heavily in the war and the ocean and earth don't take prisoners, they send back bodies.
We're a collection of small towns held together by self interest, with no cities of a size any of the rest of you consider "large". We are 99% surrounded by an entity that WILL just swallow us if we continue to wreck the envirnment. We *are* different.
I think people who live by the ocean have a hard coded sense of existential threat. 
