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Brian Cedar's avatar

Our family lives in Washington and we have fantasized about joining Canada or creating Cascadia eversince MAGA hit American political scene. I so wish the offer to join Canada was not so tongue in cheek.

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William Farrar's avatar

Do you live in Western Washington or Eastern Washington. Western Washington is as red as Texas.I don't think that Canada wants the denizens of Ellensburg, Yakima, Grants Pass, Moses Lake, Euphrata.

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John Schwarzkopf's avatar

You are confused. Western WA is blue, Eastern WA is red. Grants Pass is in OR, not WA. Please try to get basic facts correct.

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William Farrar's avatar

You are correct, Brainfart. I live in Western Washington. And my county is blue

I was wearing a Kamala shirt and got smiles everywhere, not a dirty look.

During COVID some assholes tried to stir up shit about not wearing masks, they were 86 from the market and escorted out by the police, A handful tried to raise hell on a street corner, but were pelted with veggies.

They were made so unwelcome that they left the community

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Paul_'s avatar

Lighten up, dude.

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Paul Lebow's avatar

That's fine. We can be selective. No reason in this modern and interconnected world that a country must be contiguous.

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Nancy Piercy's avatar

Spokane is the ruby red hub of Eastern WA. ,William. And it's Ephrata, and I think a biblical placename. And the chief indoctrinators of children are religious elementary schools. Ask any recovering catholic.

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William Farrar's avatar

I thought Spokane would be more liberal considering that it is a big city. Guess not.

Thanks for the correction on the spelling of Ephrata, I should know better, been through it many times, Moses Lake especially, but that was over 50 years ago.

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Jim Lee's avatar

Spokane is a blue dot in a sea of red, along with Pullman and Walla Walla. Plus, I bet a lot of (rational) conservatives would be happy with a Canadian governance system.

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William Farrar's avatar

Thanks for the input. Being trite, rational conservative sounds like an oxymoron

A conservative is by definition opposed to change, yet change is the way of nature it is inevitable, so standing in the way of change is as irrational as standing the way of a flash flood and trying to stop it by holding out your hand.

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Paul_'s avatar

Oregon is kinds like that in many places.

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William Farrar's avatar

I think I've read that 13 counties want to join Idaho.

Except for the I-5 Corridor I assume Oregon is ruby red.

The less exposure a population has to minorities (and not just racial minorities but thought that is no conservative, racist, religious, the more extreme right wing they are.

Oregon is 85.6% white

of the 15% non white only 2.4% are black

Idaho is more racist than whites in Alabama.

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