In November, in response to the rapidly expanding “Move Oregon’s Border” grassroots movement, a set of counties in rural eastern Oregon will vote on whether to join neighboring Idaho. “Our values and our overall desires are more fitting with Idaho than on the other side of the mountain in Portland,” a woman named Sabria Rios said in a county meeting, voicing what many of her fellow residents feel—captive in a blue state but hopeful that they can join a red state. And this may soon be possible: a third of the counties that would be subsumed into Idaho have already voted in favor of the movement, and Idaho's lawmakers and governor have heard the pitch to absorb three-fourths of Oregon.
