Reddit reviews Fire and Ice: The United States Canada And The Myth Of Converging Values

Not to dissuade you from Halifax - heck, I live here - but your impression of Alberta a "the most socially conservative part of Canada" might be factually correct but it is completely different from the socially conservative parts of the USA. For example if you take the book Fire and Ice out of the library, you will see a decade's worth of polling and statistics showing that, not only are the values of Canadians and Americans measurably diverging over time, but that the values and ideas of the most conservative parts of Canada (Alberta & Saskatchewan) are more socially liberal than even the most socially progressive parts of the USA (New England). Plus, the values of the average Canadian, even in Alberta, are much more akin to the values of US millennials than they are to the average American, so you would theoretically be somewhat (socially) comfortable with attitudes and ideas of people around you even if you found yourself in Calgary.

So I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Interesting, though this seems it's not exactly a new message for Michael Adams. For over a decade, he's been writing opinions and books about it. Still, it's interesting to see the latest numbers and the actual polling data that shows the shift in attitudes, catching stuff like

>a mild backlash against feminism among Generation X men at the ages of 25 to 44 (foreign-born and Canadian-born alike).

that anecdotally, I see playing out. It's also striking to see that the regional spread in America is 69% to 42%, while in Canada even our highest regional rate (in Alberta) is 26%.

Have you read Fire and Ice?

This appears to be running against the course of history and social movement.

The gap between Canadian values and American ones is wide and growing wider, claims this author, pollster, and social researcher

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Ice-United-States-Converging/dp/014317035X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372506875&sr=1-1