I tend to think of it as Cascadia minus the Canadian and Alaskan bits- Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Shasta Cascade and Emerald Triangle regions of California, Montanan Glacier Country.
It's preposterous to exclude any part of the Northwestern Lower 48 that doesn't drain into the Pacific Ocean. I voted for WA + OR + ID but there are good reasons to include MT and WY. Who was the 1 person out of 46 who didn't vote for Oregon?
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the Bay Area is more similar to SoCal than to the PNWIdaho has a massive influx of conservatives from California, they think they're "escaping" the communists in Cali to join the good folk in Idaho.
They don't accept that the native Idahoans hate them....
Liberal-hippies get along with the country-conservatives in Idaho way more than the Californian-conservatives..
My boss lived in Idaho (worked remotely) and he loved that I rode my bike everywhere and drove an electric car in Seattle because it meant I was taking care of the environment. He would comment on that stuff all the time about how he liked me because I cared. And he was conservative as ; would be on video calls with a "Let's Go Brandon" mug, all of it.
My step-sister is hippie as and she fits right in up there (also anti-vaxx, so they like her on that too).
They all hate the suburban Californians running away up there.
Yeah, I agree. I think there are plenty of shared values for people that grew up here, regardless of political leanings—everyone generally seem to care about nature (whether it’s looking at it through binoculars or shooting at it) and there’s an attitude of polite indifference between groups, “live and let live”, in my experience at least.
The new transplants seem to be more suburban assholes who want to build a castle, dodge taxes, and act entitled in public.
Live in ID, can confirm pretty much this whole thread. ID conservatives, especially East ID conservatives, are more old-school libertarians than culture warriors. No one here likes DeSantis, and even Trump signs aren't super common (even that idiot Ammon Bundy, who is from NV, compared Trump to Hitler). I think that's largely a function of the Mormon population, to be fair.
As far as newcomers go, what reason do ID conservatives have to want them? Many of them see new residents as more competition for their favorite campsites, hunting grounds, fishing holes, hiking trails, and golf tee times. I think that plenty of Republicans from CA and WA and OR get the wrong impression entirely from the "greater Idaho" foolishness (which was mostly started in the first place by people from OR and WA).
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