Oregon · There is a history here
Asked plainly, nearly half of Oregon votes to leave the union.
Oregon has done this before. The movement here is dormant, not dead.
Oregonadults in Oregon would back independence when the question is asked the way a ballot asks it: calm, binary, and peaceful. That's about 47% of the state.
Even the understated abstract poll counts 579,000 (17%). How we get this number →
Organized here before
This is not new ground.
Oregon has raised an organized independence movement before, in the recent past. It went quiet, which is not the same as gone. Most movements sit quiet for years, right up until they don't. The people who believed it then are still here, and it takes a handful of them to make it a movement again.
Oregon, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$331 billion, ahead of Portugal.
people
More than the whole of Croatia. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 527 are chosen by people who don't live here.
The only question that matters
Oregon is already a nation in all but name.
If Oregon were already a self-governing nation, with its own border, its own money, its own defense, everything two hundred other nations control, and the vote in front of you was not whether to leave, but whether to join the United States on the terms it offers today, would you vote yes?
Cast your vote
Oregon was its own thing before it was a state. Settlers here ran a provisional government at Champoeg in 1843, years before Congress got around to recognizing them. That instinct never left. Ask the question the way a real vote would put it, calm and binary and peaceful, and about 47% of Oregon would vote to leave the union. That is roughly 1.6 million adults.
Here is why 47% is the real number and 17% is not. The abstract poll asks people to react to an idea in a vacuum, with no ballot, no stakes, no yes-or-no in front of them. A ballot is different. It is binary. It is peaceful. It asks a plain question and lets you answer it. When you word it that way, support in Oregon runs about 30 points over the abstract poll. That lands the state within reach of a majority. Close to half, and climbing.
Cast your vote
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