re: #282 Anymouse

The so-called State of Jefferson seems like a way to make another Red state. Would it become an instant taker state?

I wouldn’t be terribly shocked if that were the case. They’d be a smallish state, to be honest.

As of the 2010 Census, if the Jefferson counties were a state (original 1941 counties), the state’s population would be 457,859: smaller than any state at the time. Approximately 82% of those residents live in Oregon. Its land area would be 21,349.76 square miles (55,295.6 km2) - a little smaller than West Virginia. The area is almost evenly divided between Oregon and California. Its population density would be 21.44 inhabitants per square mile (8.28/km2) - a little more than Idaho. With the addition of the more modern Jefferson movement (Coos and Douglas and Lake Counties in Oregon, and Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Mendocino, Lake, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Colusa, Sierra, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Placer and El Dorado Counties in California), the population as of the 2010 Census would be 2,313,958, making it the 36th most populous state in the US.

Most of those are largely rural counties, and to be honest, I don’t know what their respective economics look like. As far as eastern Washington and eastern Oregon go, I’ve been to Pendleton, OR and Spokane, WA a couple of times. Not bad places, to be fair.