State Level Divorce

For John, BLUF:  As geographic areas seem to be more locked into alignment with one political party or another, people are looking for new ways to break the logjam.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Conservatives Want to Secede From Oregon, and Leftists Are ENRAGED

From PJ Media, by Mr Robert Spencer, 5 March 2023, 11:42.

Here is the lede plus one:

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.

While the three Pacific Coast States, Washington, Oregon and California are known for their Progressive views and actions, for being the "Left Coast", it isn't the whole truth.  In fact, the Eastern part of each of the States is actually a much more conservative enclave.

Perhaps the solution to our differences is to allow voters with different political views to band together in their own political entities.  On the other hand, this might benefit the conservatives.  No wonder the left in Oregon are enraged.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff