My grandma had a weird mix of an English West-Country and a Massachusetts accent, my other grandma still has an extreme Jawjuh accent

@ophiuchus French is majority African, or will be soon.

My parents have virtually no accent and I definitely don't. Kinda disappointing.

Montreal was passed by Kinshasa as the second largest francophone city recently iirc

Yeah. I mean, Spaniards are obviously European, and after the initial moratorium, if we decide to make immigration a thing again, then they could be eligible, but the situation between us and Latin America is such that there can be no compromise on linguistic intrusion.

Meh. If you call what the Congolese speak French.

That's fair. Anything that has a proper Spanish root for a name was absorbed into English by now anyway. Santa Fe, etc.

Mass media destroys accents

Everyone under 30 sounds like they're from Burbank now

If we make immigration a thing again it should be understood for the sake of cohesion and civilizational self confidence that we speak English and our core culture is English-derived

Canada almost joined the union in the 1800s

@NateDahl76 That's definitely true. We hardly even speak dialects anymore; just Broadcast English in varying accents...

WASP culture is American Culture - Queen Ann

What a superpower we would be...

The Canadian provinces still have a standing invitation to join the union, and thus do not need the approval of congress to join. Fun fact.

@ophiuchus White Anglo-Saxon Pagan? <:varg:359010745192808449>

If the Pig War had popped off, Alaska would have perhaps be connected via Yukon and British Columbia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)

Huh. Never knew that (about the standing invitation for the provinces to join).

Didn’t we try to invade them twice

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN The area my grandparents are from in Poland has street signs in the original native language

Also had a “war plan red” in the 30’s

@NateDahl76 Yep. 1775 and 1814.

Yeah we did

Yeah, I read about that (War Plan Red), too.

Muh plains of abraham

Quebec is kind of not really a part of our cultural continuum (as strongly obviously)

"1775 WILL COMMENCE AGAIN1"

There's no meaningful difference between someone from Saskatchewan and someone from North Dakota

There definitely is between someone from Upstate New York and Quebec

Definitely a language thing, although there's a bit of the differing "origin myth" thing too

Yeah, I honestly think that the long-term future of English-speaking (White) North Americans is probably going to be within a single polity.

yeah, I'm inclined to agree

Thanks Nemets, I'll have to check it out

@Nemets I'll read it, might balance out what I got from Beard.

A federation authoritatively united in outward policy but with a good measure of regional and local autonomy would be most desirable imo

There was historically a lot of movement between the US and Canada anyway. For example, my great-grandfather was from an English speaking part of Quebec called Estrie. Moved to Connecticut in his teens, however, his family moved there from Massachusetts during the revolution. Hard to delineate.

@Ald 😎 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity

My automated Reddit trolling bot is coming along quite nicely

When you field test it, be sure to get us screen shots

I can explain what it does for those who don't know

Right, and in international dealings the most immediate level is White North America which would justify a superstate united in military, trade policy, borders, etc