I noted Peter T's comment about midwestern Americans being closest to Canadian in outlook. I live close to the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in southern Illinois, an area that had early outposts of both French and British settlement. I like to think I am close to the southern extremity of Baja Canada. When my son was in the third grade, he caused a minor uproar in his class when the teacher asked her students what state they would like to live in when they grew up, and he said he might want to live in Nova Scotia, Canada instead. John