> On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if
they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook
County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook
County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.
why wouldn’t they just become their own state? did they forget that that’s allowed?
Establishing a new state is very hard. Attempts to do so have been unsuccessful many times before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_partition_proposals_in_the_United_States
It doesn’t help that this is not a large and popular movement. I have attended schools with more students than the resident populations of some of these counties. This is purely political theater by a relatively small group of people.