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The Greater Idaho movement is an effort in the United States for counties east of the Oregon Cascades [ 1 ] to secede from the state of Oregon and join Idaho. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] It is primarily led by conservative dissatisfaction with the liberal lean of Oregon, driven by Portland and other cities in the north-western part of the state; proponents ...
The counties included in our proposal already have the same average income as Idahoans according to US government BEA statistics. ... Mark Simmons is the vice president of Citizens for Greater ...
1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
Greater Idaho is an embodiment of the pipe dream that we can all retire to our corners, where everyone agrees with us and nobody proposes anything we don’t like. It is a kind of political ...
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In 2021, five counties in eastern Oregon voted to "require county officials to take steps to promote" adding the counties to Idaho. In May 2022, voters in Douglas and Josephine counties rejected an advisory vote, causing the proponents to scale back the scope of the proposal and issue a “less ambitious” map. The reduced scope includes only ...
Lincoln is the name for several proposals to create a new state in the Northwest United States. The proposed State has been defined in multiple ways, but can generally be said to be coterminous with the region known as the Inland Northwest. The proposed state was named in honor of Abraham Lincoln, who was president during the American Civil War.
The "Greater Idaho Movement" would shift the Oregon border 200 ... A dozen counties in eastern Oregon have already approved ... the failed "State of Jefferson" proposal in Northern California ...