My uncle, who used to live in the Bay Area as a heavy equipment mechanic, moved to outside Boise because he wanted out of the California rat race, traffic and taxes. He’s on the conservative side, but a level headed fellow.
He lasted less than two years in Idaho before he bailed to Wisconsin, because he feared for his daughters and Boise became overdeveloped. Anyone in Oregon thinking that joining Idaho is gonna fix their problems needs to take those rose colored glasses off lol.
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Side note, but during one of Sen. Jeff Merkley’s town halls, a county commissioner candidate asked him about the process to allow eastern Oregon to join Idaho. Merkley said it would require the passage of a bill in both Idaho and Oregon, then approval from the US Senate/House. That’s a lot of hoops to jump through, and I’d eat my hat if Idaho even wants all that economically unproductive land when they already have their own budget problems.Honestly, I get it. I totally disagree with their opinions, but living in a state where you know the votes of you and your community are effectively meaningless due to a distant, overwhelming majority sucks.
That being said…this isn’t how states should work. Independent administration for urban and rural areas would amplify the existing division in our country, which has already become a glaring problem in recent years.
Welcome to blue people living in Texas
Yeah, that’s how I know ;)
They’re free to fuck off to another state like Idaho
The shit-bill war.
Disclaimer: I’m a Canadian browsing new familiar with the story from a previous post. I claim no right to commentary except word play. But we have our own similar messes. That said, that line extends north past WA as far as political leanings go. IMHO.
I live in OR, these people are stupid, they imagine the grass is greener on the other side, but small farmers and ranches are being strangled to death by GOP ideals in ID, they just don’t want to blame themselves.
They literally should just try Idaho for a year and see that what they actually do not want, is to be like Idaho.
It’s kinda funny, I imagine Idaho doesn’t want them; not least of all because it’s going to take them from looking like a melted rotated Oklahoma to looking like a middle finger emoji.
why wouldn’t they just become their own state? did they forget that that’s allowed?
Establishing a new state is very hard. Attempts to do so have been unsuccessful many times before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_partition_proposals_in_the_United_StatesIt doesn’t help that this is not a large and popular movement. I have attended schools with more students than the resident populations of some of these counties. This is purely political theater by a relatively small group of people.
