Antifa creates riots in Portland, Oregon, last November 3.
Portland, Oregon, and other cities in the United States have been experiencing months of left-wing riots that have left many people in the state fed up. Recently people in five Oregon counties are mulling over a vote to leave the state and join the Republican-run neighboring state of Idaho.
According to the Washington Times, the five counties that want to secede from Oregon are Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur and Sherman counties.
Oregon Border Commissioner Mike McCarter said in a statement that Oregon is a powder keg and that even counties that are red states like Idaho are implicated by Portlanders.
He cited Oregon Democratic Gov. Kate Brown’s “bizarre” coronavirus restrictions, arguing that the state legislature favors Portland over rural communities. He said the state protects Antifa arsonists, not the general Oregonian population, putting one group above another in vaccines, program funding and school curriculum.
McCarter added, “Oregon’s subdivisions are becoming more and more dangerous, so we see the relocation of the border as a way to keep the peace. Oregon and Idaho are already separated by state lines. But the problem is that the location of the state border was decided 161 years ago and is now out of place. A cultural and ideological divide currently exists in Oregon. The radical left has forced out ordinary people who just want to live in peace.”
There are also opponents who say that disgruntled rural Oregonians should just relocate to Idaho. To that comment, McCarter responded that it’s not that simple. “We love our communities. We’re tied to them.” “It’s just the state government that we can’t stand.”
But the report said relocating the Oregon border would require clearing a high threshold: any reconfiguration of the state line would need to be approved by the relevant state legislatures and Congress.
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