The “Greater Idaho” movement has been gaining steam throughout eastern Oregon. The Story’s Pat Dooris headed out east to ask residents why they want to leave.
JOHN DAY, Ore. — The vast expanses of eastern Oregon represent a rural oasis from the urban sprawl found in much of the Beaver State’s western half. For months, many residents in Oregon’s eastern counties have been contemplating a divorce from the west via the so-called “Greater Idaho” movement. They’re fed up to the point that they want to move state borders and become Idahoans.
Many of these eastern Oregonians feel that the lawmakers and state officials in Salem aren’t
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