Northern Tier (United States)

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The Northern Tier of the United States. States sometimes included are shown in light red. Northern Tier.png
The Northern Tier of the United States. States sometimes included are shown in light red.

The Northern Tier is the northernmost part of the contiguous United States, along the border with Canada (including the border on the Great Lakes). It can be defined as the states that border Canada (excluding Alaska), but historians include all of New England in the Northern Tier, as well as states of the Pacific Northwest, because of the common culture they shared for more than a century. [1] Sometimes the area was called "Greater New England", because of the influence of its culture as migrants moved west across the continent. It had a consistent political culture until the 1960s. [1]

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Definition

Moving northeast to northwest (as the majority of population did), the states include (with sometimes-included states annotated with asterisks): Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania*, Ohio*, Michigan, Wisconsin*, Iowa*, Minnesota, South Dakota*, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon* and Washington.

History

Contemporary era

President Donald Trump's second-term trade war with Canada is anticipated to cause economic issues in the northern U.S. border states. [2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
  2. ↑ "From Alaska to Maine, communities that border Canada worry US tariffs come at a personal cost". AP News. 2025-03-02. Retrieved 2025-03-15.


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