Cascadian Flag: Treasonous?

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The U.S. didn't want to be the global policeman at one time, either. But we took on that role by necessity. I would imagine it could the same for a future China.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I'm actually good friends with the person who designed that flag, his name is Alexander Baretich. I'm a huge advocate of the movement, I took a trip all the way up to Vancouver for a Cascadian event at the Peace Arch 3 months ago.

I agree the Pacific Northwest doesn't share typical American values. I think this has largely to do with the fact we are physically isolated from the rest of the country and are much less religious. We also could have easily become either our own country or a part of Canada.

I feel a lot of kinship with Canadians, moreso than I do with Americans from the Rocky Mountains, Midwest, South and Northeast. I really am intent on having a Canadian girlfriend someday because I think I'd relate better to a Canadian woman than to American women who seem to feel into three types: country gals, high-maintenance or hipster, Canadian girls just idk seem more girly and also more chill.

Buffalo, New York feels very foreign to me but I actually feel quite at home in Ontario, because it feels just like an eastern version of British Columbia which feels like a Canadian version of Oregon and Washington. We have a pretty common history with Canada, the Hudson's Bay Company was very active in this region, we shared a trade language with western Canada (Chinook Jargon), a lot of native/First Nations tribes live on both sides of the border, the way we talk is somewhat similar. Canadians are stereotyped to sound like the characters in Fargo but the truth is your average kid in Toronto or Vancouver sounds just like a Portlander or Seattleite except the occasional "melk", "eh" or "aboat". If the Canadian government wasn't becoming a satellite of America I wouldn't mind Oregon and Washington just joining Canada rather than the Cascadian movement.

The Pacific Northwest is also the only part of the US that's truly liberal aside from maybe Vermont. California's urban white population is liberal yes but its rural and minority populations make the state quite conservative. The Pacific Northwest even has some quite rural 'blue' counties. The Upper Midwest votes blue but they're still overwhelmingly traditional, they're just compassionate, and the Northeast votes blue but they're still deep-rooted, cynical and militant. Here in Oregon and Washington even the conservatives tend to care about the environment to some degree and many of them couldn't give a crap about the Bible. Oregon and Washington are probably as left-wing as your typical Western European country and maybe even more progressive, but the fact they're part of the United States kind of holds them down.

My family went hiking in Hawai'i once on a trail that was described as 'through rain forest,' and it took us about 3 miles before we realized that we were IN the 'rain forest,' because the trees (actually tree-ferns) were only about 15 feet high. We're used to trees literally hundreds of feet high out here, and anything under 20 feet is a 'shrub.'

Being a guy from east of the Cascades, I think I can honestly say, that the so called "cultural divide" between the east and the west of Washington is probably has more to do with regional rivalry than anything else - at least in regard to the greater Spokane area. I have relatives on the west side of the state who have lived there their entire lives, and when I would visit them with my parents when I was younger, I never perceived any cultural differences. If anything, most of them were no more or no less liberal than my parents and me. I do concede the small towns and rural areas in eastern Washington are pretty conservative - but I would imagine that could be said of such communities on the west side of the state.
So in other words, Spokane and the surrounding small cites (like my own Spokane Valley) and suburbs would make happy additions to Cascadia.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

If your not from the South all our accents probably sound alike,I can tell the difference from the slow drawl of the Delta to the twang of Appalachia and the spicy Cajun accent.I like to hear people's accents,all of them sound nice to me.I was on the phone with a salesman who had the most wonderful Spanish accent,he may have looked like a troll in real life but he sounded like he was as handsome as a god.I wish I had a sexy accent like the gorgeous Italian lady in the Arbath(Spelled wrong I'm sure) car commercial,wish I looked like her too.