I don’t know where you got that story...its old...Governor McCall (GOP) in the 1970s said that...the Libs are now inviting EVERYONE to Oregon..its the only way the state may financially survive...but it won’t..
p.s..and in the 70s Oregon was not liberal
I got it from reading an article in some magazine probably twenty years ago or so. The writer of the article interviewed of number of Oregonians. The message they conveyed was they had it good, and they didn’t want anyone else moving there to get the good life. I assume they meant Oregon could only sustain the good life for so many people. True or not, that was one of the messages I gleaned from the article.