How to make a State Blue. So we know the tried and true method of a transformation: elect a new people. California proves it, so do New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada. How do you do it without immigration? You kill its industry. Let’s cover Oregon.

Oregon was an ethnostate. Really. They barred blacks in various ways until the 1920s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_black_exclusion_laws?wprov=sfti1

It was a rugged pioneer state. It had traces of the worker union vibe even before unions with the heavy reliance on the timber industry. Ever been? It’s like those quaint New England postcards of fall except the trees are on steroids.

The trees were Oregon’s lifeblood. The timber industry bolstered the entire state and ancillary biz made for a network of industry employing tends of thousands in logging alone and many more. Blue collar gigs to raise a family on.

From ‘39 to ‘87, the GOP held the governorship for all but 6 years. It was purple though with Portland’s metro area reliably D. What changed? Logging and the environmental movement.

Feds own land in Oregon like much of the west. Know the phrase tree hugger? It is from not just hippies but activists who would chain themselves to trees and protest their removal. Logging was often on federal land.

The excuse for the left to manipulate procedural outcomes was putting the spotted owl on the endangered list. This bottled up logging on private and state land and choked logging & paper to death. Spotted owl kept dying regardless https://truebluenz.com/2011/02/11/spotted-owl-die-out-billions-lost-when-logging-falsely-blamed/

It’s even worse. There are reports how the spotted owl was so few in numbers that it made no sense to protect. Others say that in non-logging areas the spotted owl was wrecked by other owls.

Even after this announcement there were performative tree occupations by women on non-federal land. You know who the media spotlighted and promoted. Companies didn’t have the internal teams to know how to counter this nor alternative media to push their side.

When the logging industry died, workers left or went on the dole. That was the economic interest that funded the GOP. Poof! Gone. Maybe Nike would take its place? No. Nike invented the platform other firms would follow: R&D, market & office work in US/manufacture abroad

Oregon has close shaves but it is always just out of reach for the right. The trend of the UMC to the left the last 20 years always seems to crush the right’s chances

Oregon went the education/health/FIRE route that New England went and turned blue just as New England manufacturing powerhouse Connecticut did. Their enviro and tax regs now kill any business not on the govt teat. That’s how you transform a red state without ethnic swarming