Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'

Re:Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater... by mc32 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:11PM (#27227324)

Note that this movement isn’t recent and I think I’d traced to the proposed state of Jefferson[1] (in the NorCal, south and east Oregon areas), which was going to get a vote in Congress but WWII got in the way and never happened. It comes up from time to time; you’ll see banners for it in rural areas.

So it should not be framed as a pushback to current politics. They feel they’ve had reasons for a while.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(proposed_Pacific_...

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Re:Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater... by cratermoon on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:27PM (#27227519)

You can trace it all the way back to the Mormons and their idea of the State of Deseret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret

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