Hello

For years I have not called myself "Amerikan" or aa "US-Amerikan", but instead I identify myself as a Cascadian. You ask "where the hell is Cascadia?" Cascadia is the "Pacific NorthWest" and specifically its not a "nation-state", but is a bioregion that currently transcends political borders. Ok now you may ask "what the hell is a bioregion?" ... well it is some geographers and environmentally aware people explain as:

“Bioregions are geographic areas having common characteristics of soil, watershed, climate, native plants and animals that exist within the whole planetary biosphere as unique and contributive parts.... A bioregion refers both to geographical terrain and a terrain of consciousness -- to a place and the ideas that have developed about how to live in that place.... A bioregion can be determined initially by use of climatology, physiography, animal and plant geography, natural history and other descriptive natural sciences. The final boundaries of a bioregion, however, are best described by the people who have lived within it, through human recognition of the realities of living in place.... there is a distinctive resonance among living things and the factors that influence them which occurs specifically within each separate part of the planet. Discovering and describing that resonance is a way to describe a bioregion.” www.olywa.net/speech/may9...closkey.html

Cascadia is a bioregion encompassing the territories of the Alaskan Panhandle, British Columbia, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, northern California and western Montana as well as very small portions of other near by states and provinces.

Cascadia is geographically the Columbia River Watershed and the area around the Cascade Range. Cascadia's farthest extent is from northern California to the Alaskan Panhandle and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. Cascadia Minor tends to be the states of northern California, Oregon and Washington with the province of British Columbia. The Scottish naturalist David Douglas named the Cascade mountain range after the powerful waterfalls that carved out this land and gave it so much biomass.

So why not instead of all of us south Cascadians flocking to Canada we could suggest Oregon, Washington, northern California, Idaho and western Montana with the Alaskan panhandle re-unify with British Columbia as part of Canada. This region was once considered a one region before the US under expansionist policies by president Jackson and Polk divided the region. It could be a campaign like after the fall of the Berlin Wall to re-unify Germany: "Re-unification of Cascadia!" Just imagine Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Vancouver (BC), Victoria and the whole Cascadian bioregion (rural and urban) working together either as Cascadia or under a Canadian Confederation.

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