It would still help the small counties relative to popular vote, if the number of electoral votes total was small. Because even a tiny county would always get at least 1 electoral vote. barfo
I am going on record I am against this, tired of hearing about it. It is all over here in Central Oregon. But this is exactly why they are pushing this, no matter what Rural and Eastern Oregon does, they don't have as many people as the tri county area. The feeling is the state is managed for the mass populous and this side of the cascades has no say in how they are governed. They are never going to be happy unless a trump supporter gets in as governor of Oregon. They think since more land is over here they should have more vote, no matter that they are in the minority.
Then they should pick up and move to Idaho. I wouldn't be so apprehensive about moving out there if it weren't for so many Trumpeting local yokals. I get enough of that in Oregon City
Whats wrong with Merging Eastern Washington & Oregon with Idaho and Montana. Same demographics, trading routes & principle industries and ways of life. They would be about as big as Oregon then in population too. State boundaries are so out dated and don't make a lot of since anymore.
So do away with Idaho and eastern washing and oregon and just make one big state? What benefit does that have to washington? Oregon? If people don't like they state they live in they are free to move, but a large majority of the people east of the cascades have ZERO interest in this.
Because I like having eastern Oregon be a part of the State. If they want to be in Idaho they should just move...
No, dont do away with Idaho just merge E.OR&WA/Idaho and Montana as one new State. Strength in numbers as well as same principle industries, trading routes, and ways of life are similar. They have more in common than with major west coast cites as Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene and population would be closer to same with all those smaller regions consolidated. Consolidation is the name of the game now days.
Why not just give them more freedom from the metropolitan way and allow them to couple up with regions more like each other. Western Oregon doesn't need the eastern regions to prosper.
So Boise should be part of Oregon and Eastern Oregon should be part of Montana. Consolidate all the Metro areas in the Country into one state and all rural into another and just have two states? Or just need to rearrange a lot of blue states to give more congressional districts to red states?
Why so? what is it you like about that area? Hundting/Fishing/Ranching/Farming/politics? or just the scenery? Ive spent time in many Stats and Cities and I can tell you Spokane, Tri Cites, The Dalles, Pendleton, Baker, McCall, Boise/Pocatello, Missoula, Helena, Bozeman & Whitefish have a lot more in common with each other than Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma, Olympia, Vancouver, Portland, Salem, & Eugene.
Oh I know, just thinking out of the box for fun. If prices get much higher here more will be moving that direction.
Because they need a metro area to help support those areas. Without metro areas to support them they'll turn into wastelands.
Yep. I may be one of them. Rent on my house will pay a nice mortgage over there once my kids are out of high school.
I decided to strip it down to the simple logic of making choices that fit your lifestyle....you and I are good examples of that...I moved to Oregon just like you did. Angry separatists should just angrily separate themselves...
With the country so divided more than ever it seems I do think people will move for different reasons than maybe in the past. Cost of housing and politics could be two reasons.
i was born in the mountains with no doctor, as my parents lived off the land in the hills outside of Alsea. I've gone and camped there a few times. Beautiful area. Though i was taken aback by something else. Lol.
Moving makes more sense than seceding to a different state whose politics you like more, IMO. And as many have said, this is a similar divide over a lot of the country. Not in the wanting to merge states way, but in a red blue urban rural divide.
