The Dutch

[Hatman 🍁]

Aww. I miss the days when I got to "discover" things like this.

To answer your question, the cause is primarily religious. They're mostly Dutch Reformed types.

Even Washington has a Dutch enclave in Lynden. Here's the gay marriage map for Whatcom County, courtesy of Alcon. You can probably figure out where it is.

Just across the border from Lynden is BC's bible belt. Not sure how Dutch the area is though.

[Hatman 🍁]

Just across the border from Lynden is BC's bible belt. Not sure how Dutch the area is though.

Abbotsford (the federal constituency) is 11.2% Dutch as per the NHS, compared to 4.7% for BC and 3.2% in Canada. 'Other Christian' is 27.4% against 9.2% in Canada.

Ahh, according to this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_census_areas_demographic_extremes Abbotsford is indeed the most Dutch place in Canada! Interesting how they settled on both sides of the border.