Anonymous, please read! BC and Oregon, Washington (State not DC), Idaho, Western Monntana were once considered the same territory called the Oregon Country. BC was renamed Britsh Columbia after President Polk (he lived in the 1840s) saber-rattled (threatened war) against the British if they did not drop all political claims on the Oregon Country which is now part of the United States. British Columbia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and even western Montana were all considered one region called Oregon. Today many people in this region are now awakening to this historical usurping by the Atlantic Empires and we are calling ourselves Cascadians (not Canadians for those you can not read the picture above).

Here one more time for people too stupid to read the above responses (yes I mean Amerikans.. after all they are the dumbest people on this planet.. maybe I should write slowly for them to understand):

As for the region being one region in the past. It actually was one region prior to 1846 Oregon Treaty after two years of military threat by the US expansionist President James Knox Polk. Polk caused huge diplomatic chaos with his presidential campaign of "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!" in 1844. He even fortified the existing Canadian-US border of the time hoping for a conflict with the British. Most modern Amerikans do not realize that American foriegn policy that Polk and Jackson pushed for radically changed US foriegn policy from a isolationist democractic republic to an imperialist anti-European country under Polk. Most modern Amerikans also do not have the education to understand the division in the US over Polk and Jackson's decision to create an expansionist policy. These men are often portrayed in modern reconstructionist history, but almost brought the US to civil conflict several times.