Q: not downtown calgary per say but the suburbs, and also drumheller, cardston, taber, lethbridge and red deer. are people there as conservative/church-going/gun-toting/troop-supporting/suv-loving as people in texas and other western and southern states? or is alberta just conservative compared to ontario? or just libertarian?
A: Well in terms of the people, it depends. Lots of left wing liberals in places like Jasper, Banff, and Canmore for example. As well as in itinerant work towns where a good portion of the population is from the East. I found the rest of the province very conservative. Both in terms of politics, and social outlook, and I lived in Jasper, Calgary, and Edmonton. In governmental policy that's an affirmative. If they could, they'd have the death penalty back. Multi-tiered health systems, reverse legal same sex marriages, etc. The economy is based on oil, farming and ranching, so there's another similarity for you.
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