Greater Idaho
First published: Sunday November 1st, 2020
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A little while ago, I heard about this "Greater Idaho" thing. It plans on taking over about three quarters of Oregon, and a little of California. The reasoning behind this is that most of Oregon's population is in the northwest by Portland, and they are very democratic. The people in the eastern part of Oregon are very republic, and they feel that they don't get their say on the Oregon elections. Idaho is also very republic, so they would rather be part of Idaho. I don't know why they can't just move to Idaho then, but whatever.
Here's the map.
So basically, everything that's not northwest of Bend will be part of Idaho. Look at how small Oregon would be. It wouldn't have that much of an effect on California I don't think just getting rid of Redding and north of Redding, but I don't know. This might've already been rejected, but if not, there's no way it's going through. It's still Oregon voting for it, and most of the population probably doesn't agree with it.
Comment whether or not you think it's a good idea.
e.g. The Wirral Peninsula used to be part of Cheshire, but is now part of Merseyside. Now Cheshire being a somewhat affluent county has many Conservative voters, whereas Merseyside being Industrial has many Labour supporters.
Moving parts of one county to another results in involuntary voter movements. The voters still vote but for a different politician in a different area.
The cynical amongst the population would say that the changing of borders puts a certain political party in a better chance of winning
Not that politicians would change things to suit themselves obvuiously !