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@ Fox NewsOregonians who are fed up with the blue state's policies are seeking to relocate the Beaver State's border to neighboring Idaho, where the red state policies "actually match their values."
The Greater Idaho Movement's Executive Director, Matt McCaw, told Fox News Digital that the movement to shift Oregon's border 200 miles west was created to bridge the growing "tug of war" in the Beaver State.
"The state of Oregon is divided geographically by the Cascade Mountain Range and that geographic divide is also a huge cultural divide," McCaw said. "So, on the west side of Oregon you have a different climate, it's a different economy, it's a different culture and more urban. It's a very different place than the east side, where there are agricultural people who are very conservative and traditional."
"You have these two very different groups of people in Oregon that try to play tug of war over state government," he said.
The political "tug of war" in Oregon has created a dividing conflict in the western state – aggravated by residents who have different values and needs from their elected officials.
"Eastern Oregonians are very different from western Oregonians," McCaw said. "And you can take almost any issue that is a political hot topic, whether that's immigration or taxes or abortion or gun rights or drug criminalization or decriminalization, you can take almost any issue, and what the people of Eastern Oregon want for their communities is different from what the people of Western Oregon want." .....
McCaw said that since the Genesis of the movement, just four years ago, it has gained traction from residents and local officials.
"We have gone to 13 counties in eastern Oregon and asked voters directly, ‘Do you want your elected leaders to pursue making this border change happen?’" McCaw said. "We've won in all 13 of those eastern Oregon counties, so we are looking at moving, in total, 17 full or partial counties into Idaho." ... Full Story
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