Please tell your buddy that a lot, probably most, of us in Oregon, whole east side of the cascades, would be happy to join the state of Jefferson. We hate being ruled by the west side.
Eastern WA and eastern OR should combine to form a new state, with Kennewick as a capital (near the border of the existing states with good transportation connections). It would be an agricultural and resource hotbed without the taxes and regulations that the big city liberals want.
My friend and many others are well aware of the like
minded friends in Eastern and Southern Oregon. He
has told me that unfortunately there doesn’t seem
to be a constitutional provision for the combining
of parts of two states to make one as there is to
make two states out of one (exp: West VA from VA)