Rural Oregon counties vote to discuss seceding from state to join ‘Greater Idaho’

[Wingnut]

A deep political divide between urban and rural areas has conservative residents feeling ignored by the state government

A group called Move Oregon’s Border is leading an initiative to have Oregon’s rural counties secede from the rest of the state and join Idaho.

A group called Move Oregon's Border is leading an initiative to have Oregon's rural counties secede from the rest of the state and join Idaho.

Mike McCarter, 72, a retired plant nursery worker and lifelong Oregonian, has been leading the effort for almost two years. He said he and many others are eager to “get out from underneath the chokehold of Northwestern Oregon.”

“We’ve watched the shift take place in Oregon politics where the primary concern of the Legislature is Northwest Oregon. That’s where 78% of the state’s population is based. They tend to forget that every law that you pass in the state affects us out in the rural economies, too,” McCarter told Fox News.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rural-oregon-vote-secede-greater-idaho

[catfish1957]

A deep political divide between urban and rural areas has conservative residents feeling ignored by the state government

A group called Move Oregon’s Border is leading an initiative to have Oregon’s rural counties secede from the rest of the state and join Idaho.

A group called Move Oregon's Border is leading an initiative to have Oregon's rural counties secede from the rest of the state and join Idaho.

Mike McCarter, 72, a retired plant nursery worker and lifelong Oregonian, has been leading the effort for almost two years. He said he and many others are eager to “get out from underneath the chokehold of Northwestern Oregon.”

“We’ve watched the shift take place in Oregon politics where the primary concern of the Legislature is Northwest Oregon. That’s where 78% of the state’s population is based. They tend to forget that every law that you pass in the state affects us out in the rural economies, too,” McCarter told Fox News.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rural-oregon-vote-secede-greater-idaho

I hear more an more from my parts of how much better we'd be off with a #TEXIT move, especially has the left runs over us electorally like a steamrolling cheat machine.  Map lines are increadilby stable, but go back even 150+ years that  was not necessarily the case. 
And honestly,  I really don't want to see bloodshed, so both sides need to receptive to this.

[unite for individuality]

There was a proposal years ago where
counties in Oregon and California
would secede from those two states
and form the State of Jefferson.

[mountaineer]

I don't blame them. If they do manage to accomplish this, I hope they take the sane parts of Washington with them.

[PeteS in CA]

The State of Oregon is basically ruled by Portland and Eugene, +/- a few suburbs. The residents of these few populous cities oppress and exploit the counties that feed and shelter them. CA, WA, and other states are similar.

Vast numbers of productive people in this country are being exploited and driven to the wall by clueless city-dwellers, activist-crazies, and the excretions of ivory-tower academics.