Surely, KenP, you don’t think of Texas as a fly-over state, do you?
Of course, Texans hate both the wacko politician/carpetbaggers on the east coast, and the wierdo hippie/socialists on the west coast.
Actually, it’s not really a hate, it’s just a massive self-love. 
Oh, Canada is great! In fact, do you know how to spell “Canada?”
C-Eh?-N-Eh?-D-Eh?
I kid. I kid. 
There was an interesting article about Canadian identity and the need for so many Canadian’s to separate themselves from the U.S.
The two countries are so similar that travelling Canadians are often mistaken for Americans, which is why we always travel with Canadian flags sewn to our backpacks.
(Side note: I knew someone who was almost beat up by a group of thugs in Liverpool because they thought he was American – when they found out he was Canadian, they apologized and bought him lotsa beer…)
Think of it this way. Imagine you were the little brother of the Highschool Football Hero Quarterback [sup]TM[/sup]. When you finally get to highschool everything you do is going to be in your big brother’s shadow – so you fight for your own identity: You say football is for stupid neanderthals and you join the swim team instead.
So there is a slightly “anti-American” attitude that has more to do with saying: “We are are not the U.S. Mini-Me!” It manifests itself in the occasional “the U.S. sucks because…” diatribe, even the though the reality is that Canadians do think of the U.S. as a best buddy – like the high school Swim Team kid who’s still best buddies with his Highschool Football Hero big brother.
I can trump that. My friend Rebekah, resident of California for nigh on 40 years, discovered recently that she was actually
born in Canada, and thus a Canadian citizen!
There’s still a fairly lively ongoing debate in Canada as to weather the U.S. should be admitted as a province. With the U.S. being only a little bit smaller than Canada, it would almost double Canada’s size. And Canadians seem to be familiar enough with the foreign-ness of U.S. culture to manage the absorption gracefully.
-Coffeeguy
:poke: poke: yeah I can see waves of pissed off Canadians on horseback in an all out invasion. Yelling "see what happens eh? when you provoke a CANADIAN!!! we’ll show you what wer’e all abooot!!"
All of the U.S.??? Couldn’t we just admit a few select states? Just the good ones.
No, no, no – we’d be on mooseback. It’s much more intimidating than it sounds, trust me.
Wumpus said:
Less. At least Ozzy gets invited to hang out at the White House once in awhile.
I still think the only reason Pat ever agreed to co-host Crossfire is that he liked the combination of cross and fire.
WRT the OP, I’ve heard Americans make a lot of snide remarks about a few Canadian politicians, but have heard very few express hatred, or even dislike, of Canadians at large.
(The cited invective does sound a lot like stuff I’ve heard on Fox News. Thing is, Fox is only ‘Fair and Balanced’ in the sense of: Fair as distinguished from constantly, irredeemably worthless, and balanced … on the right leg.)
Mind you, moose bites can be pretty nasty.
As **Slipster ** says, us older Americans will NOT forget the Iranian hostage crisis, and when Americans searched for sanctuary in Teheran, the only hiding place they were given was the basement at the Canadian Embassy. Everyone else locked them out.
That’s the only reason we didn’t nuke you when you came up with Celine Dion.
That's why we settled for economic warfare. We bought out Tim Horton's.
Oh, a smart-ass, huh? [sub] should fit in well around here...[/sub]
As opposed to us NEVER making fun of Southern accents, or AH-nuld S.'s Austrian one?
Bah! Real men can ride a horse. We don't need something with handlebars.On behalf of Canadians everywhere, I do indeed apologise for unleashing her on the rest of the world. I’m surprised there aren’t more nations gunning for us.
Celine Dion was part Canadian weapons of mass destruction program. Highly classified “BANSHEE” program that included Alanis Morrissette and Mitsou.
Time for her to start learning French and speaking metric!
Parents of a friend of mine totaled their '69 Mercedes against a moose. The moose walked away.
Try that with a horse!
Yeeeees.
Well.
Historically speaking, anybody that’s managed to irritate us enough to get us to quit squabbling amongst ourselves has been Really Sorry afterwards…
I also apologise for Celine. And Alan Thicke. It really wasn’t intentional, honest. THAT would be against the Geneva Convention.
<snaps fingers> Maybe that’s what John Irving meant when he said in A Prayer For Owen Meany that people in northern New England have more in common with Canadians than New Yorkers. I bet NY doesn’t have 10,000 moose (which, as an interesting statistic, is 5 times our homeless vet population) running around their state.
To be honest, I’m one of those people who feels that Canada is about as different from where I live as, say, VT. Sure, the road signs in Canada are different, as is the money, but it looks pretty much the same, which isn’t so odd since it’s only a 3 hour drive to get there from here. Some people speak French there, but a lot of the signs are in French and English in parts of NH and ME too, so that’s not so strange. I suppose parts of Canada are radically different than where I live, but not the parts I’ve seen.
Special moose effects: Olaf Prot
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