[Dennis M.]

Liberals view conservatives as a tax base and nothing else. They are democracy at its worst. They will not let eastern Oregon go and couldn’t care less.

[Veto!]

What does Idaho say about this? Has anyone asked?

[llevrok]

I wish Eastern Washington would vote to do this too (I live in Western WA).

There are 39 counties and one (Seattle’s King Co.) runs the state politically

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

A better argument can be made for splitting states up. One or two leftist hellholes usually control the entire state. Prime example: Chicago. Southern IL is very beautiful and conservative, but they get screwed because of Chicago. We can easily add another 20 states within the Continental US.

[MeganC]

What happened to the State of Jefferson?

[SuperLuminal]

Yeah, sure!
Like that’s going to happen...

[Myrddin]

The federal government controls much of the land in Idaho. As a consequence, that land is not productive to the state GDP or tax base. The feds try to compensate Idaho with something called Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) paid to the state government. I suspect much of eastern Oregon has a similar issue. Some is farm land. Some is under federal control. More unproductive land from a GDP/tax perspective, but a significant burden during fire season. I agree that the population likely mirrors Idaho political/cultural values. There might be enough people to contribute another House representative. From a land perspective, it would make Idaho straddle more Pacific timezone than it currently does. Most of the state is Mountain timezone.

[NonValueAdded]

Article IV, Section 3:

New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

[Twotone]

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.

[Cen-Tejas]

Too bad our forefathers did not write Oregon’s Constitution.

Our forefathers ALMOST came to blows over giving each state 2 senators regardless of population.

States need to do SOMETHING similar. Perhaps instead of representation by population Oregon should give each county (out of 36) a vote in the House and each Senator one vote.

Then, King County would lose all it’s power and the state wouldn’t have to break up which I don’t think is a good idea, long term.

New York should do the same as should California. If people want to fight about it, fighting (and dying) over this proven concept would be better, in my opinion, than breaking up the state, which could also lead to fighting (and dying).

[hinckley buzzard]

Eastern Washington should start a similar initiative. Make Idaho Great Again.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Just do it.