Cascadia v Canada Part 3
Read the other parts as well, but this one kind of grabs me the most, almost certainly because it is one that I share.
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Dave Clark
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Free Cascadia!
Being a native of Washington and having lived here my whole life with almost all my traveling being to BC with some to Oregon, I have a huge identity with Cascadia. When I first heard of Cascadia a couple years ago, I thought “Oh! Well, that makes perfect sense!” In my mind, the rest of the US and Canada can bugger off.
A quick peruse of the history of Cascadia shows that we were originally envisioned as being our own country from as far back as Thomas Jefferson. Stupid 49th parallel treaty! Also, people tend to forget the Cascade divide and how different these closer cultures are!
I often think about a Cascadia between the Pacific and the Rockies from San Francisco to the top of BC. Plenty of farm land for food and natural renewable resources. Not to mention a kick ass tech sector. “States” or “Providences” can be reconfigured on a smaller, more regional basis.
Oh, and imagine the rivalry between the Cascadia national team and the US national team!
You should read "Ecotopia"
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by Dave Clark on Dec 27, 2011 5:17 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Misread that as "Ectopia" on the first pass...
Just a tad different…
by Abbott Smith on Dec 27, 2011 5:57 PM PST up reply actions
And... sample downloaded to my kindle!
Thanks for the suggestion. Looks interesting. :D
It's a fantastic article
There were some that wonder whether Vancouver really has a place in the Cascadian rivalry. Well, I switched my default rival in Fifa 12 to the Whitecaps.
There’s three stripes on that Cascadian flag (fittingly blue is on the top, green on the bottom, with white in the middle). They are just as important to this place as any other member.
Spot on article.
I grew up in Spokane and have lived in Seattle since 95. I’ve traveled all over the US, Canada, Japan, Ireland, and the Netherlands. NOTHING beats Cascadia!
When I walk to the mart to pick up a sixer I see two different mountain ranges and the ocean for chrissakes!
by DaveValleDrinkNight on Dec 27, 2011 8:32 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
Loved it
A soccer blog that mentions dual administration of the Columbia District is right in the middle of my wheelhouse.
It's a damn shame that the only one professional sports league is shared between Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver.
I realized a long time ago that the things I love most about the Pacific NW don’t stop at the border, and that includes sports rivalries.
A few brief years of the NBA
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Yeah.
Unfortunately, now it’s down to one team. At least the college teams are around to help with the sports hate. I am looking forward to cheering on Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, for instance, but having three NBA teams would really help keep the rivalries active during the MLS off-season.
Which of course assumes that you consider the NBA a sports league...
I have a confession to make, I cannot stand to watch basketball. It bores me senseless. I moved to Indiana at the end of my Sophomore year in HS and got to see first hand the insanity of HS basketball in Indiana. Three of the colleges that I attended have atheletics and all had good basketball teams. Heck, two of the schools won the national title in their NCAA division while I was a student. My sister started all 4 years for her college team and went to the final 4 three years in a row. They won it all her Sophomore year and she was the MVP of the title game. And I still can’t stand the sport.
Seattle is my adopted home and I am more proud of the fact that the first American team to win the Stanley Cup was the Metropolitans than I am that the Sonics won an NBA title.
by Abbott Smith on Dec 28, 2011 9:23 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
That puts you in a very tiny minority
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Technically we still have hockey
Though you could call the Vancouver Giants, Seattle Thunderbirds and Portland Winterhawks “Semi-Pro”
Hopefully someday soon we will have Cascadia rivalries through Soccer, Basketball AND Hockey.
Split on that
It would be nice, but I also think it’s nice when Cascadia has one official representative in a sport. Everyone around here is pretty much a default Canucks fan (but below rioting level, obviously) and the Mariners rule the roost all the way down into Oregon and up to Alaska. The Sonics leaving is a little too recent for everyone to suddenly be a Blazers fan, but in 20 years with no expansion here that may be what you see.
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