Just a random thought I had during a discussion with my family. Obviously we don't want Eastern Canada and all the liberal frenchies. But Is there a possibility of annexing say, Alberta and everything north/west of it? From what I've heard, outside of Victoria, everything in that area is pretty based and conservative and actually has a movement going for independence/annexation anyway.
Assuming this happened we could just use it as an excuse to redraw Washington and Oregon and combine Portland/Western Washington/Victoria into a single state and let the rest of Oregon/Washington join what used to be British Columbia. So as to not rustle any jimmies, we could probably combine Alberta with Idaho, and Yukon/Northwest Territories with Alaska. Beyond that it would give us a clear drive to Alaska and allow us to expand our road and rail network all the way to Alaska, thus making drilling/fracking up there, in the Yukon, and in Alberta more feasible. Plus the US has more oil friendly laws anyway, so I'm sure the "Texas of the North" would love to take advantage of that. This would also help us to achieve complete energy independence since Canada, and Alberta specifically, has the third largest oil reserves of any nation in the world after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
You should know, Vancouver is like your Portland. It has the highest percentage of sodomites and drug addicts in the country.
Welp, looking at that map, I'm playing around with my original idea a bit more. Perhaps it wouldn't be feasible to create the Alaska highway. But it looks like at the very least we could get the Eastern half of BC, all of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the southern half of Manitoba, and the northern half of Ontario.
The way I see, could probably annex or buy out that little portion of Canada and leave the rest of BC, maybe the new Canadian government could combine it with the Yukon? As far as state combos, I still say split up Oregon and Washington to combine Western Washington and Portland into one state with the rest going to a new state with what we got out of BC. Alberta and a little bit of BC goes to Idaho, Saskatchewan goes to Montana, Manitoba to either North Dakota or combines with Saskatchewan, and Ontario to Minnesota.
Alternatively we could just keep everything outside of Oregon/Washington the same and just add new states. There's also the option of giving portland and western Washington to Canada, though I'm not sure they'd want it.
Before you put any real amount of thought to it, you might want to wait till we have an honest election.
Also I would suggest that you don't try to add us to other states. If we join, it would be on our own terms and the first term would be our own statehood.
Good points on both topics. I'd say Canada and Australia, while not as conservative as the US, aren't as liberal as people let on. That being said, I've always been under the impression certain parts of Canada have more in common with the US than Canada and would be better off as States in the US.
As for the second point, that WOULD be ideal, but I'm thinking about it from a senatorial perspective. Adding onto other states wouldn't affect the senate, thus creating less resistance to the movement overall. At the very least the BC, eastern Washington, non Portland Oregon state would probably have to happen if any of this were to go down.
You'd be surprised how conservative people are outside of the population centers.