Red counties in Blue Oregon rebelling?

PJ Media:

A push to include a referendum that would approve a move by several eastern Oregon counties to Idaho is underway and may be gaining some traction.

Although unlikely to succeed, the effort to have a vote on the issue is proof of great unhappiness in the rural parts of the state that are becoming more resentful of the far-left policies being adopted in Salem. The state's largest city, Portland, is a far-left bastion and dominates politics in the state.

We see similar movements in California and Washington, where largely rural people are rebelling against what they see are radical cultural changes being forced on them that they don't want.

Oregonian:

“We’re picking up momentum,” McCarter says. “It takes a lot of oomph to get something like this started. I call it a peaceful revolution.”

The group wants to have initiatives on the ballot of every eastern Oregon county this fall.

“Our approach is to go county by county rather than a state initiative,” McCarter adds. “We want people [in the counties that would move to Idaho] to chime in and say, ‘Yes, we want this.’ It takes more work to go county by county, but it informs the public more.”

In Oregon, two counties have already given the nod for a referendum to be included on the November ballot that would separate them from the state of Oregon. But even if they are successful and the ballot proposal succeeds, they would still need the permission of the state and the U.S. Congress for their dream to become a reality

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Rural counties in California have similar complaints.  Even in states they dominate, liberal coastal elites are not popular elsewhere.