REALLY?!?
I know somewhere there has to be a map that shows Oregon ir really LEFT of Kalifornia instead of UP from Kalifornia.
SORRY, and condolences.
Well, according to some myths and legends, Oregon is a hotbed of liberalism. Repeatedly electing liberal idiots to “represent” us doesn’t do much to dispel those ideas either. But just as every state with concentrations of population, the outlying areas are much more liberal than the more sparsely-populated counties. Even California is pretty conservative outside the cities - as is Nevada which keeps on re-electing Harry Reid.
Oregon has the “I-5 Belt” which runs from Portland down to Eugene. Most of te population resides in that narrow corridor. Twenty to forty miles either way from it you’ll find conservatives outnumber liberals by a hefty margin. Unfortunately, that’s all farmland and the human population isn’t enough to counter the cities.
It isn’t particularly unusual either: pick any “Blue” state and you’ll find that the big cities, the population centers, are predominately Blue, while those counties whose farms feed the cities are predominately Red in sheer area.
I was born here in Oregon. When I got old enough to take care of myself I roamed the world. I even spent a few years in California, but that was when I could walk into a grocery store with a gun on my hip and walk out with the groceries and no SWAT team to greet me. I know first-hand the difference between the two states and yeah, I’m glad I live in Oregon.