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The people in eastern Oregon are generally patriotic and sane, and they’re tired of being subjected to the misrule of the far-Left kleptocrats in Salem, who care about them only as a cash cow to fund their socialist pipe dreams. Accordingly, some have formed the Greater Idaho movement, which actually hopes to detach Oregon’s rural eastern counties from the state and attach them to Idaho. This movement, as fanciful as it seems, is gathering steam, and that has Democrats enraged. Whatever else it may be, their rage is revealing.
Idaho Senate Minority Leader Melissa Wintrow, a Democrat, said: “I’m very pleased this measure has virtually no chance of advancing into reality. It would be bad for all involved and bad for the country, and I am opposed to it at all levels.” Bad for the country! When Leftists who have nothing but contempt for the America-First movement and seem to put America last in all their policy considerations, start declaring that something is “bad for the country,” it must be very good indeed.
Fox News explained Sunday that Wintrow was “referring to a resolution making its way through the Idaho Legislature that wouldn’t move the Idaho-Oregon border but rather call for formal talks between the states’ legislatures about relocating the boundary line. Last month, Idaho’s House of Representatives passed the bill, which will now be debated in the state senate. It’s unclear if the bill will pass the Idaho Senate, but the chamber is, like the state’s House, dominated by Republicans.” That means that it actually has a chance.
What is the big deal about moving a state boundary line? “Proponents of the idea argue it’s about maintaining more traditional values, preserving a certain way of life, and being properly represented by the state’s lawmakers.” Idaho Rep. Judy Boyle (R-9th district) stated: “Yes, I am supportive of the Greater Idaho idea. I have lived along the Oregon border my entire life, so [I] have many east Oregon friends. They have been quite frustrated with the liberal I-5 western Oregon corridor running their state and completely ignoring their values and needs. They have finally come down to asking the voters, county by county, if they want to join Idaho. Currently, 11 counties have said YES!”
And that’s what has Leftists such as Wintrow rattled. What if conservatives all over the country get tired of serving as the Left’s piggy bank and start changing the political divisions of the country so as to get out of the statists’ grip?
People have already been voting with their feet, streaming out of socialist madhouses such as California and swelling the population of free states, chiefly Florida. This is already a massive rebuke to the Left’s claim to embody the will of the people and concern for workers, and if eastern Oregon manages to join Idaho, the rebukes could start coming thick and fast.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
This movement has been going on for a while now, but I hope it succeeds. And I hope it’s followed by other movements throughout the country, like, say, Virginia, Eastern California, Like I’ve advocated in the past, merge and resplit the US and Canada along political lines
Ms Wintrow should simply move to Portland if the reason she hates this move is the dilution of her power
Barbara says
I have friends in north west Oregon and they are conservative. But they for various reasons are unable to move. The shame is the liberals who occupy about 1/8 of Oregon get to dictate to the entire state.
The agriculture part of Oregon live an entirely different lifestyle and yet the majority of liberals, live in the cities do not understand how different city living is from country living.
Jack Reynolds says
There is a huge Rural-Urban split in Canada that is larger than the West-East divide. A future map of North America could be very different than todays.
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https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AJWzSROq63nEnn8&cid=E76789FDE0B5A721&id=E76789FDE0B5A721%21179&parId=E76789FDE0B5A721%21114&o=OneUp
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https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/03/conservatives-want-to-secede-from-oregon-and-leftists-are-enraged
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Golem2 says
It makes total sense.
dazzleme says
Yes it does!!