Secession movements have yielded results

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Continued from Page A3 with Idaho.

The 21% of Oregon’s population residing in counties east of the Cascade mountains range believe they are ignored by those in western Oregon’s large cities, Portland, Eugene and Salem (the state capital). They believe they have much more in common with Idaho’s red state policies than what they view as The Beaver State’s (expensive) urban anarchy.

This is not an Idaho land grab. It began with the residents of 11 eastern counties voting to switch states. Now they are up to 13 counties, roughly two-thirds of state territory.