If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list. I think I saw a report that said 15 counties were necessary for the change to take effect.
At what point does the wanna be translate into reality, Idaho?
The counties of a state should be able to vote to remove a single county from the state... something like say, each county needs a simple majority for yes/no and 80% of all counties must vote yes to separate from the loathed county.
Think Illinois and Chicago’s Cook county....
This is very interesting. If the counties could actually change states, those counties that are left in Oregon would become in deep peril to the then large communist voting block.
Therefore, as more counties vote to leave, I would think borderline counties would be forced to rethink their positions and vote to leave also. If they don’t, and the transfer to Idaho is successful, their lives turn to ****. Voting to leave may be there one and only chance to have a normal live without selling their property and moving.
Go ahead and vote to leave, if nothing happens, no harm done. If these counties do leave your county goes to and live remains sane. If you do not vote to leave and they do leave, you are in a world or hurt. Otherwise no change. The only proper decision for any rural county at this point is to vote to leave.
How could these rural counties NOT want to take that golden opportunity for freedom? Why in hell would they want to remain in the Cali-like hellhole of Oregon?
I’d love to see red counties across the country draw inspiration from this effort. Breaking free of corrupt, hyper-leftist cities would be the best development that could happen.
The movement makes a definite statement but it isn’t going to happen. The state’s rulers won’t let them go.
Seems pointless since Idaho won’t be “deep red” for long.
Soon, you might have Idaho bordering the Pacific. They might have to pay an income tax, since Oregon doesn’t have an income tax. Oh well, the price of FREEDOM...
There's a dramatic sense of ignorance in that claim.
Idaho is being overrun by migrating californians and Idahoans are permitting the slow transformation as they infect the bureaucracy.
I am in support of splitting the state of Oregon (perhaps the 58th state /s), but not necessarily 'greater Idaho'.
Merger-wise, State of Jefferson seems more realistic, but equally difficult to accomplish.
I like it, god bless them.
If this succeeds, I would look for the western counties of The Peoples Republic of Minnesota to join the Dakotas and leave the Minneapolis metro area to plunge into a third world dung heap.
There are lots of examples of this when one city dominates a state but is totally at odds with the rest of the state. Or when a few counties are totally different from the rest of the state.
For example, the rest of Illinois would dearly love to get rid of Chicago.
The 3 westernmost counties of Maryland want to join West Virginia with which they have much more in common than the rest of Maryland.
A lot of people in Virginia would like to get rid of the 3 DC counties aka “Occupied Northern Virginia”.
A lot of the rest of New York would love to get rid of NYC.
etc etc. If/when the US does split, the lines are not going to be as neat as state lines. They will probably have to be drawn at the county level to avoid too much strife.
The vote originally took place in May, with preliminary results showing support for the effort leading by only 21 votes. After all votes were finalized in June, the lead shrunk to only seven votes, narrowly avoiding the state requirement for a recount.
Seven votes
Pretty small number to avoid a recount.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States)
When independence came, the framers of the Constitution left the matter to the states. Subsequently, state constitutions conceptualized county governments as arms of the state.[13]
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/county-secession-local-efforts-to-redraw-political-borders/
What is notable about these movements, then, is not their potential to radically restructure political jurisdictions, but what they telegraph about the deterioration of Americans’ willingness to tolerate life under the rule of the opposing party.