Five new counties in ultra-liberal Oregon have now voted to leave the state and join the conservative state of Idaho.
As Business Insider reports:
Seven rural Oregon counties have voted in favor of an effort to become part of Idaho, and organizers of the Greater Idaho movement say more counties could soon have the option on the ballot.
“We want out from underneath Oregon’s governance and go underneath Idaho’s governance, which we tend to match up better with, as far as our values go,” the group’s president, Mike McCarter, told Insider. “Now for 20 years-plus we’ve been trying to change the makeup and improve the makeup of the Oregon Legislature, but when you haven’t got the vote, there’s not much you can do about it.”…
7 rural counties in Oregon have voted in favor of an effort to become part of Idaho.
Leaders of the Greater Idaho movement, which seeks to transfer more than 70% of Oregon’s land to Idaho, say Oregon’s Legislature doesn’t represent rural residents. ⬇️
https://t.co/KSh1dubPG4— Politics Insider (@PoliticsInsider) May 28, 2021
McCarter told Insider the proposed new border would encompass 18 full and three partial Oregon counties and account for about 860,000 people in Oregon.
While that would be only about 21% of the state’s population, it would represent 70% of its land — McCarter said that figure highlighted how centralized the state’s government is.
Is the vote by conservative counties in Oregon to flee the ultra-liberal state for a more conservative one a taste of things to come for other states across the country?
I hope they can pull this off! Sock the liberal Oregon government in the eye!
Awesome stuff! Americans fighting for America! So good to see!
Proud of you. Hope it works out.
That would be a fond notion, but our leadership has other plans. America is going to be dissolved into a Global Region consisting of the North American Continent, and directed by foreign administrations. The first step toward this ambitious scheme was our hosting the U.N. NAFTA was no accident, GATT, Global Climate Accords and other sanctioned removal of our sovereign borders have also signaled the advancement of those goals.
B.S.
If you don’t believe it, read up on Agenda 21, Agenda 30, and the “Great Reset.” It is coming and there’s nothing we can do about it. It is a plan by the elite, but it was foretold eons ago in the Bible in Revelation.
People are fighting back against liberal tyranny.
You ain’t seen tyranny yet.
Hopefully Idaho accepts those counties
I’d like to see Eastern Washington do the same thing.
just keep your faith and trying and we will be praying for you to succeed
This is what southern IL is trying to do also. We match more with the people in Southern Indiana and have several counties already voted to want succession from IL. We all want the state’s government officers will hear us.
So, now we have an American Gaza Strip? I will say this about Oregon, it is much cleaner than its neighbor to the south. I remember a park near Mt. Hood adjacent to a beautiful body of water named “Lost Lake”. There was not ONE piece of garbage, car tire, Styrofoam container, soda can or other discarded items in that park. Many parks in California look like abandoned landfills.
I remember when my aunt and uncle moved to CA from PA back in the 1950s. Everyone wanted to live in CA back then. They moved to Riverside and then San Bernardino. They loved living there and my two cousins thought it was the best place to live ever. One has since passed but the other one lives in southwest Oregon. He’s still ruled by the dictates of the crazy leftists, but for the moment at least he still seems to be safe there.
Our friends had a cabin in the canyon near San Dimas. Each year we would head from Lancaster to that location in order to cut the weeds around the cabin. There was an awful lot of smog that we breathed during those trips.
When I was 5, my family moved from Illinois to California, and I loved it, except that we were too poor to own a car and drive to the high Sierras where there was snow. But I did love Monterey, and was homesick when my family moved again — to PA! But now I think California is a lost cause, while there is still hope for PA.
Just when are the supposedly American voters in coastal Oregon going to figure out what makes people American, and what does not? They can expect NO help from the radical, racist Democrat Party, AT ALL! What the eastern Oregonians are saying to the radicals in Portland is, “If you love radical, lawless dictatorships so much – well, choke on it! But leave US out. We want no part of your horrid socialist monstrosity.
Sure I suspect they will eventually get some help from the demonRAT Pahhhti,…. Night Riders in sheets and pillow cases, Short Ropes and tall tree’s…. you know like they did in the south for nearly a hundred years…. That was the demonRAT pahhhti As well…. As was Jim Crow, the demonRAT Pahhhti…. george wallace, demonRAT Pahhhti,…. The late Senator Byrd of the demonRAT Pahhhti,…. Grand beagle or some such nonsense, of the Cue Clux Clowns,…. which is NOW run by a Clownsman named Flaccid beagle Biden,…. And Overseen by sloppy beagle Hairass,…. leader of the Cathouse auxillary
I grew up in Portland Oregon. Back then, it was a good place. It’s too bad the only way to redeem the name “Oregon” is by disowning it, but that’s where we are now.
When my stepdaughter and her family moved to Oregon around 2006 they moved there because it was more liberal than Texas but it was still a wonderful place to live. They totally enjoyed it. I’m sure they never dreamed the streets of downtown Portland would be unsafe to walk. They used todo it all the time. But I can’t imagine the need for Progressive idiots to be okay with messing their nests. I guess the powers that be just retire to their gated communities and hide behind the security there. Maybe they need the experience of the Missouri McCloskey’s to get the point that no one is immune from the disaster they have created. Their time will come if they don’t get control.
Crazy! An extreme form of gerrymandering if it spreads. All the metropolitan areas, which have most of the population would be Democratic and elect a Democratic president forever. But the Senate and House would flip-flop depending on voter turn out and how “suppression laws” reduce minorities and youth votes, which typically vote Democratic. Idaho is a dark red state that would get even darker, no change. But Oregon would forever lose its chance to turn red. Gerrymandering is an evil.
Not to sure about Idaho…not with their current governor. Seems when people flee their Blue states, they take the Blue with them…sadly
What we are seeing is the nightmare vision of the experiment with rats by John B. Calhoun back in the 1970’s. He concentrated the rats into megalopolis ‘paradises’ where all their needs for food and shelter would be fulfilled. The rats turned antisocial, apathetic, subject to deviant behavior and violence. In a few generations ALL the rats died. Calhoun foresaw his findings as prophecy for humanity. Now in the mega-cities we are indeed seeing the catastrophic results of the ‘blue’ mindset, where humanity loses initiative, mind and soul on the dole. Evidence not only Oregon, but also Washington state, California, illinois, Texas and New York. I for one am happy to see that outside the ‘blue’ megalopolis these ‘blue’ states have regular American values.
I’m not sure how Texas got added to your list. We have managed through much trying by Progressives to stay largely conservative. While there are some areas in the big cities I wouldn’t want to live, for the most part, with the exception of some of the things I’m seeing in Dallas, in most places we’ve managed to keep conservative values and the anarchist destroyers out. And the governor and legislature are making strides to reign in Austin, which used to be the best, cheapest and safest place to live in Texas if not all America until it went left, by doing what they can to make sure there aren’t tent cities on the streets and recently the governor told cities that defunded the police that they themselves will be defunded if they do it. I don’t see any of the other places you mentioned even coming close.
Yes, but it sure is difficult convincing those in the megalopolis that those of us in ‘fly-over’ country know anything…they think we ae dumb and unsophisticated….whatever that is supposed to mean!
I don’t blame them if I lived in a state that allowed crazy people to destroy our towns and cities I wouldn’t want to be a part of it.
Caution….Slap happy flip flop TURN THE STATE FROM RED TO PURPLE….Then LIBERAL….BLUE….????….This is another tactic that is becoming more predominant as a tool of the LIBERAL BEAST….
Oregon has somewhat the same issue we find ourselves in in Texas. Oregon has centralized power pretty much in Portland but it is bluer than blue in governance. I know because I have a stepdaughter who move there because it was. But I doubt seriously she would be okay with what is going on in the Beaverton school district right now. Her daughter graduated from that district three years ago, before Critical Race Theory and the training of teen subversives.
Here in Texas we are fighting every election to keep Texas red. We have too many big population areas that vote Democrat by rote. We keep hoping people will see the folly of their ways, but each time the conservatives win it’s by the skin of our teeth.
KEEP FIGHTING TEXAS !!!
Hope you mean “Keep fighting, Texas!” (I agree with you if you want Texas to fight; I disagree if you want people to “fight Texas”.) Commas are pretty important 😉
Awesome!! Love it and wish them success. Success is eminent if they secede from Oregon
The leftist in Portland and other areas of Oregon have dismissed some of their population so the rational move is to become part of a state that will represent those disenfranchised by the left. Go for it and make the left howl for their arrogance.
It is an interesting point. We all know that this did not go so well with states leaving the union 160+ years ago. I would imagine that Oregon will fight it and that Idaho will be in a tough spot (adding the tax base would be great … but it would take a great deal of work in organizing government in those regions). Certainly Idaho would not want to create animosity with Oregon.
Can’t wait to move OUT of eugene and into IDAHO and leave the IDIOT VERMIN DEMOCRAPS behind!
I think that is just great! Amazing that 21% of the state is willing to fight for their rights and American beliefs and values. I hope they are successful. They would be an inspiration for many other states who are dominated by liberals who do not share what America is about. I wish them well!! God bless America and true Americans.
Too bad the Hudson Bay Company couldn’t have held on to the Oregon Territory so it would be a Province of Canada now eh!!
Liberalism is like a virus: It spreads. Rather than equating such actions with “White Flight” and other examples of people voting with their feet, these shenanigans merely describe the disease moving toward other hosts. Texas is currently being ‘infected’…
No, they need to be a completely separate state to offset DC statehood!
Idaho should STOP all Kalifornian’s from coming into that state or it’ll turn into a black and blue one called Idafornia- and REALLY do your homework BEFORE getting serious about these Oregon counties !!! YOU KNOW HOW DIABOLICAL THESE COMMUNIST PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAPS ARE !!!!!!!!
Why not form a new state of east Oregon? They could ad two Republican senators and a representative in the house. Think about it.
Libturds “all-over” the country, have been put on notice…even, as the demon©rats desperately, try to undermine democracy by rigging elections!
Do you really think that the USA has a government “of the people, by the people and for the people”, then just watch how these votes will mean nothing, and the people who voted for this will be forced to remain under an Oregon government that is fast becoming a lawless society and is forcing socialism and communism on the people who want to live under the freedom of capitalism and free enterprise.
The change to socialism or communism always requires chaos and lawlessness to succeed, and when the socialist Democrats order law enforcement to stand-down, they are promoting that chaos and lawlessness to succeed. The socialist Democrats lie about the chaos and lawlessness being peaceful protests, but are actually violent riots that are destroying public & private property, physically harming & killing innocent bystanders & law enforcement personnel, looting & destroying minority owned businesses, and using arson to cover-up and destroy all evidence of their crimes, as large swathes of the business districts are burned to the ground all across the USA in Democrat controlled cities and states.
Will freedom or repression win out, as freedom always does in a free country with a free people, but suppression and eventually enslavement always does in a socialist and communist country, and after these votes, we will learn if it will be freedom or suppression that wins by if the people’s vote means anything or not.
Should split the state down the middle from Hood River county to Klamath county
Hope they are successful in leaving oregon. Can’t imagine anything worse than having to live under liberal UNAMERICAN communist democRATic leadership!
This is ONE of the things the Founders had in mind when they set up the Federal Republic. States’ rights were critically important to the Founders, typified by Amendments numbers 9 and 10 to the Constitution. This is working perfectly – IF (a big IF) the detachment can be made to actuate.
That would make a move there most attractive.
Will Crater Lake end up in Idaho?
Bet wishes. Hope you succeed in joining Idaho.
Oregan, especially Portland seems to be the worst! Get the corrupt Legislators removed
Why not start another state? This way they counter DC statehood. That would be a stick up the lefts ass!
We in Central and western areas of California should do the same thing!! Take the agriculture, dairy, and beef business and join some state that is conservative, or split the state in half and leave the coastal counties to the libs.
EASIER TO JUST KICK OUT THE OFFENDING CITIES AND MAKE THEM INDEPENDENT DISTRICTS LIKE D.C. I WANT TO DO THAT TO CHICAGO AND SPRINGFIELD!