General Beauregard, Call Your Office: Conservative Oregon Counties Want to Secede From the State, Join Idaho
OCT 15, 2022 6:00 AM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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Few states, if any, are as relentlessly and drearily woke as Oregon. Leftists can point proudly to Portland, with its ubiquitous crime, homelessness, broken windows, graffiti, and debris, as the model for what they want to do to the entire nation. But at least some Oregonians have decided that they don’t actually want to live in the Left’s paradise, and are tired of being tyrannized by the Leftists who run the state. Nine Oregon counties have already voted to secede from the state and join Idaho, and two more are set to vote in November about whether or not they want to do so as well. It’s an eloquent indication of which policies actually work for the American people: while Americans from all over the country flock to deep red Florida, in deep blue Oregon, people are actually trying to redraw the state boundaries so that they’re no longer in the blue state at all.
The Greater Idaho movement explains: “We promote the idea of creating a greater (bigger & stronger) Idaho so that conservative counties can become a part of a red state. We started from rural Oregon, but our movement now includes people of northwestern Oregon who welcome a new, smaller Oregon, as well as Idahoans, Californians, and Washingtonians.” The movement maintains that “moving the Idaho border is a win-win for each decision-making body.”
The Greater Idaho movement also suggests that those who think that the very idea is impossible are simply unaware of history: “Counties can become a part of Idaho. State lines have been relocated many times in American history because it just takes an interstate compact between two state legislatures and approval of Congress.” The idea that state boundaries can be changed is based on the idea of state governance in itself: “If the United States were governed as a single state, we wouldn’t have the opportunity for state governance to vary according to the culture of a local area. The purpose of having state lines is to allow this variance.” An important and often overlooked point.
An adjustment in the boundaries would simply make them conform to present-day realities: “The Oregon/Idaho border was established 163 years ago and is now outdated. It makes no sense in its current location because it doesn’t match the location of the cultural divide in Oregon. The Oregon/Washington border was updated in 1958. It’s time to move other borders.”
The move would even benefit the hyper-woke inmates of Western Oregon. The Greater Idaho movement argues: “In 2019, the average northwestern Oregonian wage earner subsidized eastern & southern Oregon counties by $382 per year, judging from income tax rates, plus $187 per year for state highways. Are you willing to keep paying that, just so that Oregon looks big on a map?”
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