[QUOTE=Acajack;6135695]Interesting analysis. Southern Ontario was "born in that water", so to speak. The original culture at least was very much about a right way and a wrong way of being, and was not necessarily very tolerant of people who stepped across the line. (All of which was part of the reason for not joining the American adventure in the first place way back when, the new United States being more of a no-holds-barred, freewheeling enterprise.)
Of course, today southern Ontario has morphed into one of the most tolerant, diverse and live-and-let-live places in the world. This dramatic transformation is nothing short of astonishing when you think about it.
Of course, the old my-way-or-the-highway and do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do mentality displayed by people like Rob Ford and other right-wingers rears its head every so often and is still there under the surface.
But I don't think they'll be running the show down there any more than on a very occasional basis for short periods of time.[/QUOTE]
You need to spend more time among us founding Calvinists down here, Acajack. We judge as much as ever we did, but our tongues bleed from having to bite them so much!
Re running the show, I take it you're not sold on the "Big Shift". In the TO context, I have to wonder whether the burbs haven't realized that the numbers are on their side and they just need to be more careful about their choice of representatives?