Liberals.
The I-5 corridor dictates policy for the state. Plus Seattle, San Francisco and Seattle are all trying to out crazy one another right now.
This is cheap gas for us. Well except for the coast. Just remember somebody pump your gas here. So the cost of labor is added to the cost of gas.
Much of Oregon is sane with many conservative patriots, it’s just the loudest, most obnoxious tri-county insane area around Portland and Eugene.
The city of Portland is a gray skied hole. If you like purple haired homeless kids, you’ll love downtown Portland. The rest of the state - the red part- is ok.
I’m sure there are conservatives in eastern Oregon like up here in the Sierras of California that are ready to fight. Right? Can I get a witness?
Liberals
Imagine Oregon, anywhere, without those destructive bastards
There is a dearth of lithium in the soil. The long term residents in Oregon and Washington state eventually go crazy.
Years ago both Oregon and Washington were relatively mixed politically. The Californians started to exit and move north. That’s what happened. High tech moved into Seattle and you know what that attracts. So sad, it used to be a place you dreamed of retiring to, now it’s a nightmare.
It’s the Trees , Man
Back in the late 60s some Indian Guru made some prediction that California would fall into the ocean, earthquakes, etc. An incredible number of hippies were taking LSD back then. So lots of deranged freaks decided to leave Calif. Most of them decided on Oregon and Colorado because hippies. This explains partially why you get such ridiculous centers of lunacy in otherwise conservative areas. Portland and Boulder seem to be the main epicenters of this diaspora of hippie nutcases.
Liberalism.
It destroys everything it touches....EVERYTHING.
It is the BORG of this century...it consumes everything in its path. It’s vile, godless and evil.
You could substitute any number of state names for Oregon, but the answer is always the same, and post #2 nailed it.
Oregon is great. Just stay away from Portland and a few other I-5 cities.
Dare I say - vote by mail?
Section 35: No free negro or mulatto not residing in this state at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall come, reside or be within this state or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain any suit therein; and the legislative assembly shall provide by penal laws for the removal by public officers of all such negroes and mulattoes, and for their effectual exclusion from the state, and for the punishment of persons who shall bring them into the state, or employ or harbor them.
The racist language remained in the Oregon Consitution until 2002.
I think this is a large part of why Oregon is so F'ed up.
Why is it that liberals who got fed up with California insanity decided to move to conservative neighboring states and then proceeded to elect people who propose California solutions?
democRats
PORTLANDIA
... in Portland, Ore., where indolence is a virtue, and free time only creates more opportunities for not working.
The Portland of “Portlandia,” which begins on Friday on IFC, is a city where no one can complete a task: a couple ordering chicken in a restaurant are derailed by questions about its provenance; a man trying to patronize a bookstore is stymied by its flaky owners.
“A city where young people go to retire,” is how Jason (Fred Armisen) describes it to Donnie (Carrie Brownstein) in this comedy’s opening vignette ...”