sure were assholes in their home state. That being said, its a rural part of Oregon and there are as many there as any other place. This part of Oregon is gorgeous, filled with good generous people and this doesn't reflect Oregon anymore than this reflects most places. My uncle had a mint farm there and I love Roseburg.

a car parked in a NYC neighborhood with Idaho plates - The slogan at the bottom of the license plate was "Famous Potatoes." I always wanted to add a post-it with the words "and obscure white supremacists."

Largely because of the populated costal cities.

Start driving east from the Pacific and it's a whole different world.

8,000,000 population NYC makes it blue - the suburbs on Long Island and upstate and the rest of the state for that matter - red.

But the majority of the population lives in urban areas.

Geographically, Oregon's pretty damned "red." But the rather substantial majority of people live in the Willamette Valley (Portland, Salem, Eugene...), and while there are no shortage of conservatives in those areas, liberals do indeed dominate...and by enough to make our presidential elections no-brainers. Still, conservatives dominate enough areas that our state legislature goes back and forth in terms of party control.

One country is a "Mayberry" where everyone knows everyone else and crime is something that happens in cities.

The other country is an urban wasteland.

The largest city in Illinois is Chicago, but the center of meth production is in Tazewell County around Peoria. The area is rural, white, and poor.

And Illinois has a GOP governor and a Democratic legislature.

the dominant political posture is quite conservative. To Midwesterners our PNW cities are termed "coastal" but most are inland while still on the coast side of the Cascades. North of Arcata, the cities are inland. We actual Coast dwellers are not as numerous and many coastal areas are also more rural in character than the urban centers in the inland valleys and sounds to our east.

The PNW has appealed to some virulent racists because there are rural areas with very few people of color. Times have changed politically in the PNW from a more exclusionary past to a hip present day and a more educated populace. Small town conservatism is still real and can be very retro. Plus, the cities are not immune to their share of rednecks.


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There is a real hotbed of conservative radicals in that part of the state. Most rural regions here tend to be heavily Republican. Luckily the urban areas tend to lean the other way.

on my way to Crater Lake...Roseburg I recall from the Burger King I stopped at, and then kept going...not much to see...glad I didn't see it...but past that area inland is beautiful.

They don't care about the people mourning in their own community? Their guns are more important than the lives of the victims? I really don't get it.

I was so afraid that there would be some of this kind of nonsense when the president was in Alaska, but thankfully he was treated with respect here. Whew...!

He goes out of his way to comfort the people of the community and is disrespected for honoring them. But, if he would not have made the trip, they would have said that he did not care about their community.
No matter what he does, he's in the wrong and that is not right!

in my town as well. So proud of their willful ignorance. Most people just shake their heads and wonder what could have caused such backward and inept behavior.

one of the largest havens of organized hate groups in America.

I hear it's the same in parts of Washington.

That makes it clear, Vermont rules as far as green states go.

it's basically Oklahoma, politically.

Peter DeFazio to the House last time 58% to 37% for the Republican. The District also voted for Obama, as did the State of Oregon in the 08 General election.