Posted on 02/01/2005 4:03:26 PM PST by Aetius
No, although there are a number of liberals there as a result of Boise State,, Boise and Ada County still vote largely conservative. The county surrounding the Sun Valley Resort is the one county that went Democrat...the only county that went democrat in the entire state.
This is a continuing urban legend. Up north, in the Panhandle Area the Arian Nation people use to hang out and the media made a huge deal of them and their "marches". Fact is, there were only about a hundred of them at their site with maybe fifty showing up at their events.
Now they have left the state for good and went down south to Alabama or some such.
Most people in rural Idaho, by far the vast majority, are red-blooded, religious and conservative Americans who support and defend the constituion. And I speak as one living in rural Idaho outside of BOise.
They were out there in the PAC NW before the Mormons got to Utah!
This is the gang that doesn't use doctors. Most of their members have gaps where other folks have teeth since they don't go to dentists either.
Thanks for the info. I thought Boise was trending a little less red due to the university and a lot of Silicon Valley transplants. I didn't know about the Sun Valley Resort area, though. Shields up, Idaho!
They do not. They are just that, small splinter groups living in a few out of the way places across the region (meaning the entire Pacific North West and Intermountain Region.
Most people here ignore them and figure they have a right to live however they want, and worship however they want, as long as they do not infringe on others or break laws. But a statement that just oputside of Boise there are many of these types of people is just plain wrong. I do not mean to offend, but I live here and speak from my own experience in the state.
Ping!
Got one Hell of an education
In the cities of this Nation
Me and John Paul...
From Waylon Live "Me and Paul"
Any update on this?
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