Posted on 01/16/2023 3:33:35 PM PST by Twotone
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Senate Joint Memorial 2, also known as the Greater Idaho bill, was introduced on the floor of the Oregon legislature by Republican state Senator Dennis Linthicum of Klamath Falls on Jan. 10.
The bill requests “discussion between Oregon and Idaho governments regarding relocation of Oregon and Idaho border,” according to the bill text.
Voters in 11 eastern Oregon counties have already approved ballot measures indicating their support for joining the State of Idaho.
“Eastern Oregon is culturally, politically, economically much more similar to Idaho than it is to western Oregon,” said Matt McCaw, a Grater Idaho Movement spokesperson. “Our movement is about self-determination and matching people to government that they want and that matches their values. In Oregon, we’ve had this urban-rural divide for a very long time.”
McCaw said the divide has caused political tension because the west side of the state “dominates state government and it dictates policy.”
“Our proposal is to take that border between Oregon and Idaho, which was set almost 200 years ago in a very different time when there was only 50,000 people in the state of Oregon…it made sense then, it doesn’t make sense now to have that border there because that’s not where the cultural divide is,” McCaw stated.
(Excerpt) Read more at koin.com ...
Might affect you I think!
I think Congress would have to approve any change such as this. So they’d better hurry while the gop has a sliver of a majority.
Connecticut used a portion of their western lands as compensation to revolutionary war veterans, who subsequently settled there. North East Ohio, generally from Cleveland on eastward to the Pennsylvania border. It was known as the Connecticut Western Reserve. As commemorated in Case Western Reserve University today. Towns all over N.E.Ohio have Connecticut place names and family names, and town commons as in old new England.
So many states could benefit seceding from blue areas and creating new states or joining their conservative neighbors, Illinois, Oregon, Texas, new York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado, California, the list is long and would dramatically change the political landscape.
Along with Baker vs. Carr (1962)
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.
So there's nothing in the Constitution that bans part(s) of one state breaking off and joining a different state.
That's why I say, just do it, let Biden try and stop you.
I notice that pretty much all of eastern oregon with the exception of the california liberal locust encrusted Deschutes county (Bend) are all in
“Eastern Oregon is culturally, politically, economically much more similar to Idaho than it is to western Oregon,” said Matt McCaw, a Grater Idaho Movement spokesperson.”
Funny, my profile page has had nearly that exact statement in it for years.
Just below the outer layer of civility in a progressive mind is a tyrant. There is no way the progs will let others live out from under their thumb.
You are of the few that get it!
One of the founders big fears was how large cites controlled entire nations. States all need an Electoral college to allow for everyone representation. unless we take some kinetic action it won’t happen because cites need rural areas slave like labors.
That's my State Senator! Go, Dennis!
James Carville once said that Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.
The problem is that the state of Oregon would have to agree to release any parts of the state that wanted to secede. That means Williamette Valley Leftists would have to agree to part with land and population and money. They’re not about to do that.
I think the actual quote was Kentucky, not Alabama. That’s why some of us in or near the “T” get referred to as Pennsyltuckians.
I think the areas in the Old Northwest which were claimed by Connecticut and Massachusetts were also claimed by Virginia. The states with those claims did get to give land grants to some of their Revolutionary War soldiers—Connecticut considered NE Ohio to be its “Western Reserve” (reflected in the name of a university in that area). Some of my Virginia relatives ended up in central Ohio, because of Revolutionary War land grants I believe.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.