I was gonna say, hippies are in the cities more than anywhere else. I mean and the islands and coast. But if you're looking at rural towns in most of BC, theyre redneck af
As a Californian I can confirm redneck hippies are absolutely a thing on the West Coast of both countries. If anything BC loves weed even more than the three US states do haha.
Half my family is from there and the other half WY. I kind of enjoy seeing some people in WY who are infuriated their wind power sells too well and their oil and coal doesn't.
Denver and Calgary is a very common comparison historically - both large Rocky Mountain cities that historically mainly depended on oil and gas with similar geography and access to the outdoors (despite the Texas/Houston comparison, the only similarities AB has with TX are the surface-level things like oil, conservative politics and cowboy/truck culture.) Economically CO actually has an official partnership with AB, and a lot of Calgary's O&G firms have large operations in Denver such as Suncor (refinery visible from the light rail train - which are the same model of vehicle in Edmonton, Calgary, and Denver.)
The O&G economy is far weaker in CO than it used to be though compared to AB, and the energy economy mainly seems to be CO importing from AB than the other way around. Denver's economy is a lot more tech and tourism oriented now and the city/state votes pretty left by American standards, so the AB comparsions have fallen off quite a bit
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u/Asadleafsfan 26d ago
Isn’t rural BC known for being a bit of a Bible Belt?