13 Oregon counties vote to secede and join Idaho
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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.
It would have a negligible impact on electoral votes. It might take 1 EV away from Oregon and give it to Idaho.
The reason that congress would fight it (if they choose to) is simply to send the message saying "sit down, shut up and keep quietly getting fleeced you silly sheep". Though, doubt it will even come to that as the state legislator will be screaming that message to stop anything from happening.
I wonder how much traction you could get by pitching it to the Portlanders as a chance to "ditch the chuds".
My thoughts exactly. I didn't see your post until I already said the same thing.
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.