Good luck with that, and i mean that earnestly. I think there's nothing wrong with adding a new state/combining two states (in this scenario), but i do think they will struggle to get the things they think they're being deprived of.
the things you refer to have changed frm 1941 to present day. I think the fact that they are ruled from Sac and Portland by people that have zero idea of the true local concerns is the issue. I have an understanding of what this is like living here in the midvalley and seeing what a true 20% unemployment rate looks like
I understand things aren't the same as 1941, but that wasn't where I was basing this. The proposed population of the area is probably about half a million. Not exactly a very high end of the socio-economic scale either. And yes, Portland and Sacramento do seem to favor the areas that have the population and money..because well, duh? Thats where most of the money originates from and a large portion of the states population resides in. Do I think that southern Oregon needs to have a better representative in the State? Yes. But the 3 million people in the Portland Metro area should be, and are, more important than the # of people in the counties in question.
Silly, but I'm fine with it. It would basically assure that Oregon only has Dems as governors and senators from here on.
Do you realize how bad that is? When you don't have any checks and balances, one party or the other runs wild. When we only elect Dems, there is no balance at all. The two parties are needed to create an equilibrium. We haven't had that for decades and that's why our state is in such bad shape.
The same thing is going on in Northern Colorado. Colorado shares much in common with Oregon. Both have one area (Willamette Valley/Front Range) where the populace is much different than the rest of the state. Both have large swaths of agriculture/ranching. Both have large amounts of liberals and large amounts of libertarians/constitutionalists. Both states are governed in a majoritarian fashion, with little respect shown for the massive minority. I think Northern Colorado stands a better chance of seceding because they'll be folded into Wyoming or Nebraska.
The two parties just need to disappear, as long as we're trying to fix them. That's the only thing that would significantly help.
Unlike Oregon, you guys have a lot of firearm industry and they're bailing out because of the anti-gun legislation.
I agree. There never should have been parties in the first place. And anyone who still thinks the parties stand for your rights is a fool. They stand for money. They stand for corporations. They stand for greed and corruption. Doesn't matter if you're a dem or a repub, your party is dirty as hell.
