What is the Greater Idaho Concept?

 Well....first, there are two states that have a fundamental difference between themselves....Idaho and Oregon.

Oregon, with a population of 4.29-million people....of which, the bulk reside in the vicenty of Portland, Eugene, Albany, and Salem area (roughly a 50 by 100 mile area on the NW side of the state).  If you did the numbers....around two-thirds of the entire state live in that 50 by 100 mile area....which means the rest of the state (mostly rural areas and small towns) is fairly unpopulated.

Here's the significance of this....urbanized Portland/Salem votes heavily Democrat and the rest of the state has little influence over the laws or political direction of the state.

So this group (roughly 80-percent of the state land mass) wants 'out', and they think that they can establish some 'path' that leads to adding their mass to Idaho.  

Odds of this?  Well....it's never been done.

If this were to occur?  Greater Idaho would rank in size after Texas and Alaska.....just on square miles.  

On voting aspects?  If you lived in what remained in new Oregon?  It'd be a 90-percent Democratic vote state, which no one really argues much about.  For Idaho?  It'd probably guarantee them as a Republican state for eternity.

Here's the thing....once you open this door....what hinders things from occurring in other states?  Could one-third of Alabama vote to move itself to Florida?  Could the city of Chicago be edged out and made into a state by itself?  Could California be broken up into five states?  

I doubt seriously that anyone in Washington DC wants this to play out because it creates a mass 'unknown'.