The Campaign To Split Oregon in Two: ‘We Want To Be Governed by Idaho’

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A growing movement in Eastern Oregon is trying to redraw the map—by moving the state line. Organizers behind the Greater Idaho campaign say they want to transfer more than a dozen rural Oregon counties into neighboring Idaho, arguing that their communities have little in common with the state’s liberal, urbanized western half. “Eastern Oregon and Western Oregon are nothing alike,” Matt McCaw, Executive Director of the Greater Idaho Movement, told Newsweek . “The people are different. They want

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