Excited States of America

English Alternative forms en Excited States Etymology en excited United States of America, from Americans' perceived excitability. Cf. also en excited state excited states. Proper noun Excited States of America 1 en Canadian English mildly _ derogatory en United States, en country continent/North America a. en 23 June 2008 Douglas Bell Falling over ourselves to pay tribute to Tim Russert Toronto Life Toronto, Ontario, Canada https://torontolife.com/food/falling-over-ourselves-to-pay-tribute-to-tim-russert/ The longest serving host of the NBC political chat show Meet the Press passed to his eternal reward recently, and the Excited States of America lived up (or down) to its somewhat sardonic anglophilic nickname. https://web.archive.org/web/20250522005854/https://torontolife.com/food/falling-over-ourselves-to-pay-tribute-to-tim-russert/ 22 May 2025 en 25 February 2015 Canadian Lawyer Magazine Conrad Black and that meddlesome Supreme Court Tony Wilson Canada https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/conrad-black-and-that-meddlesome-supreme-court/269701 Over the past number of years, I’ve warmed to his writings in The National Post; a newspaper he started and once owned. The takedown of Diane Francis for her column suggesting that Canada be bribed to join the “Excited States of America” should be required reading for all Canadians. https://web.archive.org/web/20251212152933/https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/conrad-black-and-that-meddlesome-supreme-court/269701 12 December 2025 en August 2015 BarTalk Canadian Bar Association in British Columbia Tony Wilson Confederation Day British Columbia, Canada https://www.cbabc.org/BarTalk/Articles/2015/August/Columns/Confederation-Day The fact that 148 years after Confederation, 10 provinces and three territories eventually married and stayed married without blowing up (literally and figuratively), is to be celebrated, especially when it would have been so easy (and yet so sad) to have packed it all in and joined the Excited States of America. 17 October 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221127123238/https://www.cbabc.org/BarTalk/Articles/2015/August/Columns/Confederation-Day 27 November 2022 en 5 July 2017 The Millstone John Edwards John Edwards writes on Canada Mississippi Mills, Ontario, Canada https://millstonenews.com/70504/ One in which English and French would work together and one which would leave pettiness and ‘small Canada thinkers’ behind. It would have been easy to be de-railed from the Big Picture of a Big Canada. Returning to the old-prejudices of the past would have been comforting to many, but then what? A set of small squabbling colonies slowly dropping one by one into the “Excited States of America”? If this were to be the case, there would have been no chance for a North American state where change would be peaceful and evolutionary; no chance for a state which cares for all its citizens. https://web.archive.org/web/20251212192239/https://millstonenews.com/70504/ 12 December 2025 en 20 February 2019 Seaway News Claude McIntosh Do you think the weather man is fake news? Cornwall, Ontario, Canada https://www.cornwallseawaynews.com/columnists/do-you-think-the-weather-man-is-fake-news/ The Excited States of America may have had the most trusted television news anchor in the universe, Walter Cronkite, but Canada had the most trusted weather prognosticator: Winnipeg-born Saltzman. https://web.archive.org/web/20251212071611/https://www.cornwallseawaynews.com/columnists/do-you-think-the-weather-man-is-fake-news/ 12 December 2025 en 6 November 2020 Toronto Sun Jon Snobelen Canada, let's resist the urge to watch down south with smugness Toronto, Ontario, Canada https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/snobelen-canada-lets-resist-the-urge-to-watch-down-south-with-smugness Comparing elections between Canada and the Excited States of America is a bit like comparing the halftime shows at the Super Bowl and the Grey Cup. https://web.archive.org/web/20250723161003/https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/snobelen-canada-lets-resist-the-urge-to-watch-down-south-with-smugness 23 July 2025 en United States Derogatory names for countries