Article without paywall: https://archive.is/2025.09.08-113402/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/08/mississippi-republican-states-police-cities/
Other red states have made similar moves in blue cities even as crime in those cities has decreased sharply from pandemic-era highs. And now President Donald Trump is borrowing from the playbook, sending federal agents and National Guard troops to patrol the nation’s capital and threatening to do the same elsewhere.
“It’s part of the narrative that these cities are incapable of administering public safety even though crime is on a downswing since the pandemic,” said Jorge Camacho, an associate research scholar in law at Yale Law School. “You still need a foil to blame for problems that are real and imagined. I expect to see that wielded for the foreseeable future.”
Outside of Portland, Eugene, and Corvallis, Oregon is surprisingly* backwards. There’s a whole movement to take basically all of the rural parts of the state and incorporate into Idaho. I know. They want to be part of Idaho of all fucking places.
*I shouldn’t say it’s surprising, actually. The territory was founded on the principle of being a whites-only enclave.
I don’t doubt it, but even still Oregon generally is much more aligned with my values than any red state I can think of. Plus, if there is a large exodus of leftists and liberals out of red states, I think many will choose to go to the Pacific coast states, and that will only increase the ratio in those states in favor of “us.” If those folks would rather be a part of Idaho, they can move to Idaho. No one’s stopping them.