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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 ...
Mark Simmons is the vice president of Citizens for Greater Idaho. He was formerly the Oregon speaker of the House (2001-2003) and Oregon state director for USDA Rural Development.
In 2021, five counties in eastern Oregon voted to "require county officials to take steps to promote" adding the counties to Idaho. [32] In 2022, two more counties voted in favor of being added to Idaho. [98] As of 2024, 13 counties have approved ballot measures in favor of Greater Idaho.
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 ...
The "Greater Idaho Movement" would shift the Oregon border 200 miles west, a secession effort aligning the conservative farming, ranching and logging communities of eastern Oregon with their like ...
American Redoubt. A map that shows the boundaries of the American Redoubt. The American Redoubt[1] is a political migration movement first proposed in 2011 by survivalist novelist and blogger James Wesley Rawles [2][3] which designates Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming along with eastern parts of Oregon and Washington, as a safe haven for ...
By November, three more counties in Eastern Oregon, for a total of eleven, had voted to join Idaho, a number that grew to 12 by June of 2023. [11] On January 10, 2023, Senate Joint Memorial 2, also known as the Greater Idaho Bill, was sponsored in the Oregon Senate by politician Dennis Linthicum. [12] [13]
Idaho Rep. Barbara Ehardt, R-Idaho Falls, (left) discusses the Greater Idaho movement with Oregon Rep. Vikki Breese-Iverson, R-Prineville, (middle) and Matt McCaw, spokesman for the group leading ...