Just to be clear, I love &
routinely visit the Falls/Lewiston area while avoiding 'the Queen City' like the plague.
Growing up right across from the Niagara Frontier and easily receiving all its local TV & radio stations, trust me I'm intimately familiar with the whole area and still, for example, catch Rush via WBEN am-930.
I've always assumed it's primarily the Military presence in the former which give it its distinct far more patriotic, 'salt of the earth' & stereotypically 'good American' flavor?
Incidentally, if especially as an immediate neighbor you'd like to be added to our mostly Canada ping list, merely FReepmail either Fanfan or me indicating as much.