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Posted on 05/22/2024 3:26:06 PM PDT by Libloather
Thirteen fed-up counties in liberal Oregon have voted in support of measures to start negotiations to secede from the state and join conservative Idaho.
Crook County became the latest to approve the 'Greater Idaho Measure' following a vote on Tuesday.
The proposal seeks to move the Oregon border 200 miles to the west, meaning that 14 counties and several partial counties would fall under Idaho state lines.
Organizers behind the Greater Idaho movement say east Oregonians are being alienated by the state's progressive policies which they blame for high crime rates.
They claim a move to Idaho would allow residents to take advantage of lower taxation and provide better representation and governance.
'The Oregon/Idaho line was established 163 years ago and is now outdated,' the movement's website states.
'It makes no sense in its current location because it doesn't match the location of the cultural divide in Oregon.
'We want an economy that is not held back by Oregon regulations and taxes, including environmental regulations.
'We’ll still have federal and Idaho regulations, and that’s plenty. Idaho knows how to respect rural counties and their livelihoods.'
Measure 7-86, as it was known, passed by 53 percent in Crook County in the latest boost to the Greater Idaho campaign.
However, the vote is not legislatively binding and just means residents are in favor of informing state and federal representatives that they support negotiations to annex part of Oregon.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’m sure the rest of Oregon would love to tell them to get lost. The GOP would gain a few electoral votes. The existing power structure won’t play.
I think there should be a mechanism for counties to secede from states. There are numerous instances of one area being completely out of step with the rest of the state. For example:
The 3 "mountain" counties of Maryland want to join West Virginia
Much of the rest of Virginia would like to kick out Arlington, Fairfax and Loudoun counties aka "Occupied Northern Virginia" which are just DC Suburbs.
The rest of Illinois hates Chicago.
The rest of Minnesota hates Minneapolis-St.Paul
a lot of upstate New York hates NYC
A lot of the rest of Washington hates Seattle
a lot of the rest of Pennsylvania hates Philly
Much of the rest of Michigan hates Detroit
Did anyone bother to ask what Idaho thinks of it?
Boise is a mixed bag. Different parts of the city are cultural microcosms.
But, it is the state Capitol and a university town, so there’s that.
I think there are many folks, in many counties, in many states, that would like to see secede from their demoratically controlled states and form a new one, conservatively controlled of course. California, Washington, Illinois, Texas, Minnesota all have counties that would love to throw off the oppressive oligarchy that controls them now.
U towns can mess things up.
Lots of states need to be cut in half. California, New York, Nevada, Etc... We need more states.
Because Montanas western border looks like a profile of Biden trying to sniff its lower half.
BSU hired a president who used to be at UC Banana Slug (Santa Cruz).
Most states are like that really. If we could kick out the communists of Milwaukee and Madison then Wisconsin would be rather conservative. Minnesota isnt entirely retarded mud ducks, kick outs Mpls. There are some normal people upstate NY. Etc
No way the Oregon legislature lets their slaves escape.
Same, here, in PA.
Get rid of Filthadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh and we’re as red as WV.
A LOT of people would rather be rid of Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill.
Florida was a purple state that voted for Obama twice. But you have a lot of folks moving to Florida making it a red state.
Kind of the same with Colorado and Virginia now that they're blue states.
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RE: But you have a lot of folks moving to Florida making it a red state.
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Maybe the opposite of Eric Burdon’s 1967 song
San Franciscan Nights.
I wasn’t born there.
Perhaps I’ll die there.
There’s no place left to go.
This is a realignment of a border, not the formation of a new (51st) State. There would still be only 50 States after the realignment.
Congress has no role or jurisdiction in this matter.
What states don’t have is something like the electoral college.
That was designed to offset the power of cities.
The founders knew how how cities fuck$d up their countries.
Keep Staten Island, Suffolk, and put Nassau on probation
I’m in Montgomery County. I WISH we had a conservative neighboring state so we could do the same thing.
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