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the official language of quebec is french. not a bit like michigan
Both Quebec and Michigan (along with much of the now U.S.) were part of New France. The French influence is still noticible in many of the street and area names in Michigan as well as the long lot parcels or ribbon farms patterns similar to Quebec.
Michigan is one of the few areas of what is now the U.S. that had established, permanent French-populated settlements. When the City of Detroit (ville d'etroit) was ceded from the British to the Americans after the Revolution the only English speaking white people present were military or government officials. The civilain white population was all French.
i love the way some northerners proudly suggest that they are more like canada, as if being related to the south in anyway is such an insult. whether you like us or not, we're still your fellow countrymen....now kiss our backwards butts
But you're the ones that tried to leave the Union!
still a bit of a stretch, IMO. call me crazy, but i'd argue that montreal has more in common with new orleans than any city in michigan
No. New Orleans is culturally southern (more like Memphis, Atlanta, etc.), Montreal is culturally northern. That's like saying Anchorage and Houston have a lot in common because they both speak English. Montreal much more like Michigan than New Orleans / anywhere in Louisiana. Louisiana French speakers speak Cajun French, which is derived from Acadian -- different from what's spoken in Quebec.
I could definitely see how they wouldn't be like New Orleans, different history, but why would Montreal be "Culturally Northern"? Is it proximity to the US North or trade or something? It seems to me like at least some things in Canada should be "culturally Canadian" and not map onto US Northeast/South/Midwest at all.
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To me southern Ontario always felt like Michigan/New York part two. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia seem to be about the same as Vermont/New Hampshire and Maine.
But Most of eastern Canada seems to be very European. And going into Quebec or north into Ontario does feel alien to me.
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Touche' (notice my "Michigan-French" 
