Five Oregon Counties Have Now Voted To Leave State, Create ‘Greater Idaho’

Five Oregon Counties Have Now Voted To Leave State, Create ‘Greater Idaho’

"On Tuesday, voters in five counties in eastern Oregon urged county officials to begin to promote border relocation and joining Idaho.

The counties — Malheur, Sherman, Grant, Baker and Lake — join Jefferson and Union counties, whose voters applied to join Idaho last year, in their planned secession to what is being called “Greater Idaho.”

...The group, Move Oregon’s Border for a Greater Idaho, is behind the effort. 

In addition to rural eastern Oregon, the planned Greater Idaho would also encompass large swathes of northeastern California...Read all.