Well, John, it was a very conservative, reactionary area. Small town people with small town ultra-conservative attitudes. They voted solidly for Goldwater in '64, as I remember. I knew people who thought that Congress was full of Communist agents who had infiltrated the Democratic Party and the highest courts. If you're on the west coast, you would have grown up in a far more liberal society, I think.

I frankly hated the place. I felt like bending down and kissing the ground when I eventually returned to Canada in '69.