{"id":2253751,"date":"2024-05-27T12:35:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T16:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tug-of-war-brewing-in-deep-blue-state-could-part-of-oregon-soon-go-to-idaho\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T16:38:22","slug":"tug-of-war-brewing-in-deep-blue-state-could-part-of-oregon-soon-go-to-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tug-of-war-brewing-in-deep-blue-state-could-part-of-oregon-soon-go-to-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deep Blue State Rift: Will Part of Oregon Join Idaho Soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftug-of-war-brewing-in-deep-blue-state-could-part-of-oregon-soon-go-to-idaho%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2253751&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A\u2063 movement in Oregon is working towards moving the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/niger-heads-to-polls-in-search-of-first-democratic-transition\/\" title=\"Niger heads to polls in search of first democratic transition\">eastern border<\/a> about 200 miles \u2062west, aiming to shift 14 counties\u2064 and \u200bparts of three others out of Oregon and into Idaho.\u2062 The \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-floyd-county-georgia-terminates-election-director-after-statewide-audit-discovers-uncounted-votes\/\" title=\"JUST IN: Floyd County, Georgia Terminates Election Director After Statewide Audit Discovers Uncounted Votes\">executive director<\/a> of the &#8216;Greater Idaho&#8217; movement believes that the primarily agricultural communities of eastern Oregon share more \u2064in common with Idaho than with coastal Oregon. 13 counties in eastern Oregon have already \u200bvoted\u200b to support \u200dthe initiative. Ballot initiatives in favor\u200c of \u2063the movement have reportedly passed in all 13 counties where they were presented, driven largely by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent\u2062 policies. The group hopes that\u2062 shifting Oregon\u2019s border\u2064 west will help to resolve political tensions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/georgeupper\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/georgeupper\/%20\"><span>George C. Upper III<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 27, 2024 at 7:33am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>A group in Oregon is working to move the state\u2019s eastern border about 200 miles to the west, essentially shifting 14 counties and parts of three others out of Oregon altogether and adding them to Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>Matt McCaw, executive director of the Greater Idaho movement, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/territorial-tug-of-war-rages-out-west-as-blue-state-residents-say-enough-is-enough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> recently that the culture and values of the primarily agricultural communities of eastern Oregon align much better with those of the state of Idaho than they do with coastal Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have these two very different groups of people in Oregon that try to play tug of war over state government,\u201d McCaw told Fox.<\/p>\n<p>McCaw said the two regions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fed-oregon-counties-get-1-step-closer-fleeing-liberal-state-idaho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oregon<\/a> are divided by the Cascade Mountain Range, but that the geography is only part of it \u2014 it\u2019s \u201calso a huge cultural divide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, on the west side of Oregon you have a different climate, it\u2019s a different economy, it\u2019s a different culture and more urban,\u201d McCaw said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very different place than the east side, where there are agricultural people who are very conservative and traditional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greateridaho.org\/view\/68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>, 13 counties in eastern Oregon have now voted to pass measures supporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/oregon-liberals-risk-ugly-legacy-another-county-joins-greater-idaho-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greater Idaho<\/a> movement in one form or another.<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial <a href=\"https:\/\/results.oregonvotes.gov\/ResultsSW.aspx?type=CTYALL&#038;cty=12&#038;map=CTY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vote tallies<\/a> had the measure passing last week in Crook County, 53-47.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last three years we\u2019ve been going directly to voters and asking them what they want for their state government,\u201d group president Mike McCarter said of those results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they\u2019re telling us through these votes is that they want their leaders to move the border,\u201d he added. \u201cIn our system, the people are the ones in charge, and it\u2019s time for the leaders representing them to follow through.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Do you think the Greater Idaho Movement will succeed?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe group also pointed out that they expected that results would have been even higher if not for an extensive \u2018no\u2019 vote campaign funded by Portland groups,\u201d Greater Idaho said in a statement on its site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year in the Wallowa County vote, Portland groups outspent Greater Idaho over 4-1,\u201d it noted. \u201cThe movement suspects the same was true this year, though it is impossible to know since the group funding the \u2018no\u2019 effort has not reported their spending to the state, though they are required to by law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCaw told Fox that ballot initiatives in favor of the Greater Idaho movement have passed in all 13 counties in which they have appeared on the ballot, even thought the movement is only four years old, having been spurred largely by government responses to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-faucis-former-nih-boss-finally-admits-covid-lockdown-another-mistake-made\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring COVID, the state of Oregon was one of the most extreme. They closed businesses across the state, they closed churches across the state, they closed schools, they imposed mask mandates and later vaccine mandates,\u201d McCaw told Fox. \u201cThis was all state policy handed down through the government institutions like the Oregon Health Authority, which made these policies for the entire state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very heavy-handed, and here in eastern Oregon, people did not want those policies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>However, he explained, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fired-football-coach-sues-school-officials-for-retaliation-over-political-differences\/\" title=\"Fired Football Coach Sues School Officials for Retaliation Over Political Differences\">political differences<\/a> between the two sides of the state were not limited to issues related to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/federal-court-rules-dem-governor-shut-churches-covid-pandemic-must-pay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pandemic response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]ake almost any issue that is a political hot topic, whether that\u2019s 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,\u201d McCaw said.<\/p>\n<p>The group argues that shifting Oregon\u2019s border west will help defuse political tension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd [that\u2019s] what people repeatedly say they want out of their politics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. 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Together, we really can save the country.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Thank you for your support!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Please stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44802\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/georgeupper\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44802\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44802\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44802\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44802\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>George Upper is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Western Journal and was a weekly co-host of &#8220;WJ Live,&#8221; powered by The Western Journal. He is currently a contributing editor in the areas of faith, politics and culture. A former U.S. Army special operator, teacher and consultant, he is a lifetime member of the NRA and an active volunteer leader in his church. Born in Foxborough, Massachusetts, he has lived most of his life in central North Carolina.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  George Upper, is the former editor-in-chief of The Western Journal and is now a contributing editor in the areas of faith, politics and culture. He currently serves as the connections pastor at Awestruck Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a former U.S. Army special operator, teacher, manager and consultant. Born in Massachusetts, he graduated from Foxborough High School before joining the Army and spending most of the next three years at Fort Bragg. He holds bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in English as well as a Master&#8217;s in Business Administration, all from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He and his wife life only a short drive from his three children, their spouses and his grandchildren. He is a lifetime member of the NRA and in his spare time he shoots, reads a lot of Lawrence Block and John D. MacDonald, and watches Bruce Campbell movies. He is a fan of individual freedom, Tommy Bahama, fine-point G-2 pens and the Oxford comma. <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Foxborough, Massachusetts <\/p>\n<p>  Nationality <\/p>\n<p>  American <\/p>\n<p>  Honors\/Awards <\/p>\n<p>  Beta Gamma Sigma <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  B.A., English, UNCG; M.A., English, UNCG; MBA, UNCG <\/p>\n<p>  Location <\/p>\n<p>  North Carolina <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  Faith, Business, Leadership and Management, Military, Politics <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movement in Oregon, led by a group including Matt McCaw, the executive director of Greater Idaho, is advocating for the eastward relocation of the state border by 200 miles. 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