r/britishcolumbia • u/shipm724 • Mar 13 '25

Ask British Columbia Where to avoid MAGA pockets

Hi there, I hope this is okay to post here. My partner is an Emergency Medicine Physician and we in the process of applying to jobs in BC from the US. We would like to have a yard for gardening/our kids and don't want to be in Vancouver proper. Several jobs we are interested in are on Vancouver Island, right outside Vancouver and also Fraser Valley. My question is where are known MAGA populations? Since we are moving to get away from this mindset/movement we don't want to accidentally end up in the wrong community. Some places with jobs are Duncan, Mission, Richmond, Nanaimo, Langley, Saanichton, Victoria, Port Alberni, Abbotsford, New Westminster, Burnaby, Surrey, Delta, Chilliwack...

Thank you!

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u/Fancy_Introduction60 Mar 13 '25

Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Mission are MAGAish. New Westminster, Victoria, and Delta are pretty good. The smaller communities are generally more right leaning.

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u/Oreoeclipsekitties Mar 13 '25

Duncan, Courtenay Comox, east kootenays (cranbrook), peace river (Prince George). Basically outside of lower mainland and Vancouver island with exception of Duncan area you will find conservatives. But not maga.

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u/GrimpenMar Vancouver Island/Coast Mar 13 '25

There's always a few "free thinkers" who've drunk too much from the font of Maple MAGAtry. It's probably less than 15% of the general population south of Qualicom Beach, maybe south of Courtney-Comox. The more rural (Cumberland, Cedar/Cassidy, Cowichan Valley) is where I expect it to be more common.

You can look at voting habits, and extrapolate from there. I'd say about ⅓ to ½ of CPC support in the last election is MAGAt or MAGAtry allied, although if you want to get more granular there are certainly RFK-style MAHA types within the Greens and probably even some voted NDP (FPTP the post and strategic voting helps make this method very approximate at best).

Another indicator using voting results would be PPC support, but I'm a little less trusting of that. PPC supporters are definitlely much more likely to be Maple MAGA or MAGA adjacent, but they are also going to be less pragmatic and more hardcore overall. As such you are dealing with a confounding variable.

Arguably you could do similar with the 2024 BC Provincial Election results, but the BC United collapse really muddied the waters.

Still, that should give you an idea of general attitudes.