The movement to shrink Oregon and expand Idaho 06:18. Mike McCarter knows his American history almost as well as he knows his Bible. His family has lived and worshipped in Oregon for four generations.

Unwilling to move east into Idaho, ... In 2016, Mr. Bundy started an armed takeover of a wildlife refuge in Harney County, which has voted to join the Oregon secession movement.

The "Greater Idaho Movement" would shift the Oregon border 200 miles west, a secession effort aligning the conservative farming, ranching and logging communities of eastern Oregon with their like ...

The Greater Idaho Movement criticizes Oregon lawmakers for ignoring border relocation bills and calls for federal involvement ...

Sandie Gilson, a Greater Idaho Movement board member and a small business owner in John Day, Oregon, sees the problem more simply. “We are very different people,” she said of the cultures in ...

Voters in two more of Oregon's eastern, conservative counties voted on Tuesday to join the red state of Idaho instead.. Sixty percent of voters in Morrow County and 58 percent of those in Wheeler ...

The Greater Idaho movement, which is pushing the ballot measures, seeks to move Oregon’s eastern border west to the Cascade Mountains in order to incorporate fifteen Oregon counties and two partial ...

The Oregon and Idaho legislatures, as well as Congress, would need to approve the secession plan, but the sentiment remains among many people living in eastern Oregon.

Mike McCarter knows his American history almost as well as he knows his Bible. His family has lived and worshipped in Oregon for four generations. "The only time I lived out of the state was during ...