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Originally Posted by rousseau
On the cultural continuum of Rob Ford to Glenn Gould, southern Ontario is closer to the mayor than the piano player. How much closer? Debatable.
Have you ever been to Toronto? Ford represents precisely no one within the boundaries of the original city. He got his votes from the surrounding suburban areas, which are the most ethnically diverse patch of real estate on earth. While lots of immigrants voted for Ford as a protest against perceived economic waste by urban sophisticates and due to the lack of strong competition against him, they're not "Rob Ford types" like many white suburban and rural southern Ontarians are.
"Ford Nation" consists of the white remnants of Mississauga and Scarborough along with every other Sun-reading (and now watching) rightwing doofus from London to Kingston and points in between. It's a vaguely Tea Party-esque clique of proudly ignorant partisan dolts who are impervious to reason and have a touch of the feverishly insane about them. Have a look at the comments section in the National Post or the Sun sometime.
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A: Your description of "Ford Nation" is obviously false, consisting mostly of people who live outside the city and couldn't have voted for him.
B: What a bunch of mega condescension. Downtown does not equal "sophisticated" any more than rural equals "unsophisticated." (That lazy correlation is deeply parochial, and in fact, unsophisticated. After all, Glenn Gould, whom you suggest represents Toronto much better than Ford, was famous for intensely disliking most cities and being ambivalent even about Toronto, spending as much time as possible at his cottage near Lake Simcoe.)