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Canada is 70% white where the US is close to 50%. That 20% puts them far above the majority line though. Not at all homogeneous, just much more so than the US.

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White is a color, not a culture. Quebec and Newfoundland are very different than Alberta and Saskatchewan.

I will say that perogies are amazing and were much cheaper in Alberta than Newfoundland so you get an upvote. But don’t discount that this is also true of the white population in the US.

"White" is not one ethnicity or culture -- a lot of that 70% are French-speaking Quebeckers who surely cannot be considered part of a homogeneous mass with Anglo-Canadians.

I’m upvoting you because you’re 110% right but don’t discount how diverse the US is too, without an obvious divider like that. The New Orleans Cajun are also French immigrants, for example.

No, they're not: they're the ancestors of Canadian refugees who were forcibly expelled from what used to be called "Arcadia".

Incase anyone else is a wikipedia searcher like me, want to point out there's no 'R' in the historic colony.

Acadia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia

Wanted to save other people time searching it up too

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