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Really - they should just move there.
Idaho could be getting a lot bigger if some voters in Oregon get their way.
Thousands of people in eastern Oregon voted Tuesday for their elected officials to consider ditching their .
Voters in Sherman, Lake, Grant, Baker and Malheur counties all that would lead to them becoming Idahoans. People in had already voted in favor during the November election.
The ballot initiatives called on county officials to meet to discuss and consider a border move to Idaho.
Baker County’s election results weren’t yet available on the Oregon Secretary of State’s page, but the that a majority — 3,064 to 2,307 — voted in favor of county commissioners “meet(ing) three times per year to discuss a proposal to include 18 counties, including Baker, as part of Idaho.”
The vote is only the first step of the , which would allow some Oregon counties to join a state that advocates say more closely aligns with their political preferences.
Proponents say the “swaths of ” in rural parts of Oregon have more in common with Idaho, which they want to claim as their own state. Oregon, which currently has two Democratic senators in the U.S. Senate, has voted blue in presidential elections since 1988, while Idaho, with two Republican U.S. senators, has voted red in presidential contests since 1968.
“This election proves that rural Oregon wants out of Oregon,” Mike McCarter, president of Citizens for Greater Idaho, said in a news release. “If we’re allowed to vote for which government officials we want, we should be allowed to vote for which government we want as well.”
Of course that would add considerably to Idaho's yearly snowfall totals what with all those extra snowflakes.
I wonder - could say...Texas' blue counties join Arizona or Colorado (close enough) or form their own state because they aren't aligned with the rest of that state?
Idaho could be getting a lot bigger if some voters in Oregon get their way.
Thousands of people in eastern Oregon voted Tuesday for their elected officials to consider ditching their .
Voters in Sherman, Lake, Grant, Baker and Malheur counties all that would lead to them becoming Idahoans. People in had already voted in favor during the November election.
The ballot initiatives called on county officials to meet to discuss and consider a border move to Idaho.
Baker County’s election results weren’t yet available on the Oregon Secretary of State’s page, but the that a majority — 3,064 to 2,307 — voted in favor of county commissioners “meet(ing) three times per year to discuss a proposal to include 18 counties, including Baker, as part of Idaho.”
The vote is only the first step of the , which would allow some Oregon counties to join a state that advocates say more closely aligns with their political preferences.
Proponents say the “swaths of ” in rural parts of Oregon have more in common with Idaho, which they want to claim as their own state. Oregon, which currently has two Democratic senators in the U.S. Senate, has voted blue in presidential elections since 1988, while Idaho, with two Republican U.S. senators, has voted red in presidential contests since 1968.
“This election proves that rural Oregon wants out of Oregon,” Mike McCarter, president of Citizens for Greater Idaho, said in a news release. “If we’re allowed to vote for which government officials we want, we should be allowed to vote for which government we want as well.”
Of course that would add considerably to Idaho's yearly snowfall totals what with all those extra snowflakes.
I wonder - could say...Texas' blue counties join Arizona or Colorado (close enough) or form their own state because they aren't aligned with the rest of that state?
