Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'
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#2How is the 6-Californians proposal going, I wonder?
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#3How is the 6-Californians proposal going, I wonder? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Californias
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#4Why not just move to Idaho then? Or some other red state?
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#5As an Oregonian not living in one of those sparsely-populated counties that voted for secession, I wonder why the folks who want to be part of Idaho don't just vote with their feet and move there? There's no border wall keeping them in Oregon. These votes are just symbolic and won't get them to their Idaho paradise near as quickly as a U-Haul could.
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#6How is the 6-Californians proposal going, I wonder? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Californias
I love how gerrymandered these proposals are. Make sure that the Bay Area is split across two states, so that both stay blue.
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#7Why not just move to Idaho then? Or some other red state?
In order to create 2 new Senate seats.
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#9For reference, this is about 100K people of 4.2M in Oregon (1). The rural counties of Southern Oregon and Northern California have been proposing the state of Jefferson for a while now (2). From my experience living there for a few years, it's the most libertarian place I've ever seen. It's like Texas without the Christianity. People there generally support gay marriage, abortion, and cannabis legalization but also low taxes, no gun restrictions and limited government.
(1) https://www.oregon-demographics.com/counties_by_population
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(proposed_Pacific_st...
Re: Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'
#10Doesn't Eastern Washington also have a similar demographic? Maybe combine them too.