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« on: July 26, 2011, 07:15:40 AM » |
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I have the impression that Jews in Canada are overall wealthier than Jews in the US. Canada, unlike the US, never had the waves of low-income Jewish immigration from Germany in the interbellum period or immediately after WWII or Russia during/after the Cold War, mainly because Canada doesn't have a city like New York City, where Jews are an enormous segment of the population and have been for a long time.
Also, the party dynamics are important. The Republican Party has been the party of evangelical Christianity since the 1980s, which is a huge turn-off to Jews; Reform/Alliance had hints of the same, but the Conservative Party has never been dominated by religious radicals the way the Republican Party is (and the Conservative Party has recognized the political necessity of suppressing the influence of evangelicals within the party).
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