Partisan rancor in Oregon spills over into Idaho effort to absorb its rural neighbors | CNN Politics

Greater Idaho Movement seeks to move the Idaho state line west to include more than half of Oregon.

Measure passed the state House last month and advanced to the state Senate, where it sits in committee.

Critics see such efforts as a symptom of a bigger problem facing the US post Covid-19 pandemic hostility toward those who don't share the same politics.

The discontent of rural communities with their urban, and often liberal, counterparts has been a longstanding sentiment across the US.

In Colorado, Weld County residents have seen a variety of efforts to move the state line so that Weld a county that backed Trump by double digits in a state that voted for Biden would become a part of much redder Wyoming.

In West Virginia in 2020, some Republicans in the state legislature tried to get conservative counties in Virginia to join them.