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splink 84 points ago +84 / -0

The great state of Jefferson is waiting for its turn, they don't need to be a part of Idaho when there are enough they can be their own state.

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Crimson_Identity 58 points ago +59 / -1

As an Idahoan, I agree with you.

Then Idaho can keep our shape like a gun. Don't be messing with my window decals. https://i.maga.host/LxJ05gY.png

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TrustingGod 21 points ago +21 / -0

That's dope.

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Whereami 6 points ago +6 / -0

Then it would be a middle finger!

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Jester 4 points ago +4 / -0

Haha that's bad ass!

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UhtredRagnarok 2 points ago +12 / -10

Lol this is glorious

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VoterIDMatters 2 points ago +2 / -0

it’s not a gun it’s a stovepipe bro

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iamherefortheluls 14 points ago +14 / -0

do these counties hold any significant economic hubs that would allow them to subsist as their own state?

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STEVE_HUFFMANS_BULL 16 points ago +16 / -0

Redding’s probably the largest city in the area but it’s small by national standards. Other than that, Medford has some industry. Most of the new state would be rural farms and forest, so I think they’d be just fine

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Whereami 10 points ago +10 / -0

We also have forest that need to be managed. Almeda Fire.

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UsedOnlyTwice 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah the scariest part of that night was the fire almost made it to the expo, where thousands of people had been evacuated to. It almost made it over Wagner into Buncom as well, and after that the Applegate River valley might have been gone.

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BannedConservative 5 points ago +5 / -0

Billings is the largest city in Montana (much larger than a state of Jefferson); 110,000

Redding's population is 91,000

Just for perspective. Not that I really think a state needs to have a large centralized economic hub prior to statehood...

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OurTrumpCard 1 point ago +1 / -0

Just one county in The state of jefferson named Trinity county is over two times the size of the state of Rhode island... Our states on the west coast are huge compared to the east coast...

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Independenceforever 1 point ago +1 / -0

In other words a democrat stronghold?

so being a farmer is verboten?

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OurTrumpCard 1 point ago +1 / -0

Redding is best choice, shasta lake is the source for sacramento river and will be enough to run a big state.. they just need to cut water off from farmers down south below jeffersons state line....

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splink 4 points ago +4 / -0

They have quite a lot of farmland, timber, cattle, sheep, minerals, etc. They could feed themselves and plenty of others.

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go2marakesh 3 points ago +3 / -0

I wonder if red counties would do better if they cut out all the corporate (finance mostly) and government bureaucracies that make blue cities rich. GDP numbers suggest otherwise but they don't tell the whole story.

Just sell the raw products already there then build up as capitalist free zones and finally the culture change should have an effect. However, just moving to a different state probably wouldn't accomplish all that.

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Independenceforever 2 points ago +2 / -0

Black markets of Trinity/Humboldt counties included?

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Durdurdurkistan 10 points ago +10 / -0

As a Jeffersonian I don’t want to be part of Idaho. We love weed too much down here. Without weed money Southern Oregon would be....different.

Guns, weed, no taxes, defunding the police. This is Southern Oregon in a nutshell. Literally everyone down here agrees with these themes.

And by “defund the police” I’m not talking about cops shooting people. I’m talking about Grants Pass and Medford cops who don’t give a fuck about serving the public. I called the Grants Pass police because we had active trespassers on my property and I didn’t want to shoot people. The cops came out and hassled me about some trivial bullshit while ignoring the (possibly) armed men camped in my woods.

Fuck Grants Pass police.

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OurTrumpCard 1 point ago +1 / -0

As a jeffersonian from northern california. I agree with you good sir

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WildStar 26 points ago +26 / -0

West Virginia says hi

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splink 2 points ago +2 / -0

West Virginia might disagree with that notion.

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Ben45 3 points ago +4 / -1

2 more conservative senators that way