The blatant racism?

It’s not just Albertans…it’s many, if not most, conservatives. My neighbour in Ontario idolizes Texas and even flies it’s flag. My sense is it’s just team sports…ideology…partisanship. These folks aren’t honest with themselves, and we can’t expect them to be honest with us.

This behaviour from conservatives obviously begs the question: Why don’t you just move to effing Texas, then? The short answer, as I see it, is because they love to troll and perform because they’ve been radicalized by their particular information bubble. They won’t admit that what they actually want is the best of both worlds: all the benefits of living in a liberal democracy with none of the repercussions or responsibilities of bigotry or stupidity (than they will never ever admit they display).

Oil. And oil accessories.

White Christian Nationalism

The belief that they (white Christian Caucasians) are a privileged ethnic group that should have power and control over everyone and that they should automatically have all the benefits of society because it's their god given right.

They don't care about other ethnic or cultural groups because everyone else is a lesser version of them which means it allows them and gives them the authority to have power over everyone else.

It's the same route, history and belief system of German national socialists... or nazism.

Oil culture, and cowboy cosplay.

I think that people who openly admire texas, do so over the racism and misogyny.

Texas has power outages for days at a time. People get rocked by astronomical utility bills. Also, Texas has boil water advisories for big population centres in one of the richest states in the US.

There’s nothing to covet here. It’s an embarrassment.

They are similar in that they subsist on oil, cattle and farmland.

The ones who came down here really like year-round golf, in my experience. They don't seem to mind the state sponsored racism and xenophobia because white immigrants without strong accents get a massive pass on all that shit. My old boss was technically an illegal immigrant at one point because of some visa shenanigans but no one's showing up at his door to deport him, and he's a department head at a state university.

It's got that Wild West vibe where you can shoot someone for looking at you funny