“The Greater Idaho movement” :data-laughing:
Mike McCarter, center, has galvanized a coalition of 8 counties to secede from Oregon, moving into Idaho, where they would find more amenable politics.Courtesy of Greater Idaho, greateridaho.org.
The Greater Idaho movement seeks to redraw state boundaries so rural Oregon can join Idaho.
Idaho’s House voted in favor of exploring the move after 11 Oregon counties did the same.
Moving the state boundary would require the approval of Oregon, Idaho, and the U.S. Congress.
The Greater Idaho movement — a conservative effort to have eastern Oregon secede from the blue state and join Idaho — got a major nod of support last week from lawmakers in the red state.
I think that when the rumblings of this started the Daily Show did a pretty good bit about it. The response out of Salem was basically, “If you pay us for all the state-owned assets we’d be losing from this trade, then we can talk”. It’s something on the order of trillions of dollars.
