What is New England today, if not some kind of lame, southern Canada?
Let me quote from another Freeper said back in 2004:
For all the talk of the Civil War and the "Red State/Blue State" divide, the American revolution marks an even greater division, the great gulf between docile, timid Canadians, and brash risk-taking Americans. So the whole idea is a foolish non-starter. Seen from Ottawa and most other Canadian cities, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia don't look that different from Dallas or Phoenix or Houston.
I wouldn't include Alberta or Saskatchewan in the "docile, timid" category. Conversely, I wouldn't include Boston in the "brash, risk-taking" category. Migratory patterns do seem to tell the tale. Does it hold in every instance? No, there are always exceptions. New Hampshire seems to have held on to some semblance of the spirit of the American Revolution.