13 Oregon counties vote to secede and join Idaho
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You had me excited there for a second. as it stands, it sounds like this vote has as much weight as the State of Jefferson.
You could stop paying taxes. You could ignore all the stupid laws. You could literally build a militia and walls and keep them out. Force them to leave you alone.
Ask Randy Weaver how that turned out for him.
He didn't do any of that. He just refused to be a federal informant against his neighbors.
he specifically went innawoods to get away from society and raise his family in peace. The feds harassed him until they could find a weak excuse to shoot at his family.
Didn't a certain Louisiana City "secede" from Baton Rouge?
If you're referring to the situation I think you are the answer is yes but the situation is completely different. That was a purely intrastate affair, so only state law applied. Under the Constitution getting this done would require the approval of the Oregon and Idaho state legislatures as well as Congress. Idaho's legislature is the only one that would realistically approve of this.
Congress might approve it too, it's really on Oregon not wanting to lose their most valuable people: Non-Portlanders.
They're more likely to approve it than Oregon, but I still wouldn't bet on it. The Dems wouldn't want any electoral votes getting transferred from Oregon to Idaho. Cheating their way to 270 keeps them occupied as it is.
Why does Portland care if these MAGA people are the drain on resources they like to claim?
Yeah Congress would have their own opinions based on precisely how this impacts Fed politics, which I don't know. I suppose if Idaho is conservative and Idaho gets bigger and thus more influential, then the impact is pro-conservative. A conservative Congress might then approve it. Similarly, if it ends up shifting a seat or something in the direction of the Democrats, maybe they could be talked into it.
At the Federal level probably not, because this sounds to me like DC becoming a state. It has political effects, primarily pro-Democrat. DC never becomes a state.
Kind of, yes, but not really.
The basic gist of that kerfuffle boiled down to the area wanting to have their own schools and not send their kids to the shitholes in Baton Rogue to be abused by feral blacks.
Baton Rogue basically said 'hah hah fuck no you're not a city get fucked and be a good little pay pig'.
The area basically replied 'WELL THEN' and started off the entire process of turning an unincorporated area into it's own city.
Cue alot of legal screaming because, all of a sudden, this area was really fucking important FOr sOme reaSON(money), several rounds of voting, legal challenges, and here we are now.
For Oregon, it's not like a portion of a previous state getting turned into it's own area isn't unprecedented(West Virginia), but that required, well, an active shooting war.
Hmm...