Thinking of moving to Florida in the next year

plumkrazee70 said

I knew this was going to come up. Oregon is an interesting state. Most don't know that Southern Oregon is RED. While it is a Blue state on paper.


We, because of our smaller population cannot overcome the crazies in Portland/Salem. And unfortunately, it isn't getting any better. I am far from blue as you can imagine. I want to live in a state that shares my same values.

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Sounds like miserable Illinois.
Chicago and Springfield themselves are blue, most of the rest of 100 counties aren't.
How 2 counties can out rule the other 100, has always baffled me.
Look at the geographic size of Chicago especially compared to the size of the whole state. Even if you add in Sangamon county, (where Springfield is) + the size of crook county (where Chicago is) combined (and nearly a couple hundred miles apart from each other) vs the size of the state as a whole, it makes zero sense as to how we have the dumb o cratic stranglehold that we do. It definitely pisses me off, but I'm stuck here, they have it so we can't afford to get out. You get a few miles out of crook county in about any direction the signs in people's yard do a complete flip flop from those in crook county.