'Greater Idaho Movement' Would Shift Oregon Border
“The Greater Idaho Movement” would shift the Oregon border 200 miles west. It’s a secession effort that aligns conservative farmers, ranchers, and loggers with like-minded eastern neighbors. Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge has more.
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00:00 Crook County may be the next in a dozen Oregon counties to approve a plan shifting the Oregon
00:06 border west.
00:07 The Greater Idaho Movement would shift the Oregon border 200 miles west.
00:13 It's a secession effort that aligns conservative farmers, ranchers, and loggers with like-minded
00:18 eastern neighbors.
00:20 As USA Today highlights, a 2023 Colby College study shows more than 25 percent of Americans
00:26 support secession by state.
00:28 Twenty-five percent agreed it "makes sense" to split the country up.
00:32 According to GreaterIdaho.org, "State lines have been relocated many times in American
00:38 history because it just takes an interstate compact between two state legislatures and
00:45 approval of Congress."
00:47 The movement proposes updating the Oregon-Idaho lines because "it doesn't match the location
00:53 of the cultural divide in Oregon."