70% of the counties in your blue states voted for BushHey, they weren't
my blue states, themilum. I didn't get a vote.
Does "parochial" work for you, Dgeigh?
BTW themilum, the Ambassador Bridge connecting Michigan and Ontario is the busiest truck border crossing in the world.
Many of my Michigan friends prefer the CBC evening news to their own evening news.
They party and dine and hunt and fish and own cottages all over Ontario.
They share the Great Lakes with Ontario and many of them supply goods or services to the same automakers and their suppliers on both sides of the border.
About the only thing we don't have in common with our Michigan friends is the same passport, themilum. But we don't need a passport to cross the border. Heck, many of my Michigan friends get across even when they forget to bring their Birth Certificate.
Can't resist appending this, themilum: In Ontario, anyone from the U.S. is just one of "us". 
