Rural Idaho town part of trend: Conservatives seeking escape from liberal politics

[TexasTowelie]

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — Linda Navarre moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, from Cleveland in 1978, when the town consisted of people in the timber industry and hippies "and they all got along."

Now she barely recognizes the small resort community near the Canadian border that is quickly growing as people disenchanted with big city life move there. Many are conservatives fed up with liberal politics in blue states.

"The division gets wider and wider," Navarre said, adding many of the new arrivals are changing the civility of the community. "My concern is there are so many people who are not nice."

Sandpoint is a four-season resort town built along the shores of scenic Lake Pend Oreille. It had 7,300 residents in the 2010 Census, but grew 21% in the decade to about 8,900 in the 2020 Census. In addition to the natural beauty, "people come here because it's a red state," said longtime resident Gail Cameron, 67.

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[Skittles]

1. too bad it is not out of the country

if these assholes want to live their wildest conservative dreams they should move to Russia

[Peregrine Took]

2. +1,000,000

[orwell]

6. I hear Somalia is nice...

...cheap land. Lot's of guns.

No rules!

It's a MAGA paradise!

[relayerbob]

3. Yeah, actually it's more that

The smart and talented kids, who tend to be liberal, have left. And I know, having lived in Idaho, including Sandpoint.

[keithbvadu2]

4. In a community of 10,000 conservatives, you will have half relatively cons and half relatively liber

In a community of 10,000 conservatives, you will have half relatively cons and half relatively liberal.

They will form leadership roles and will fight over ideological purity.

All 'conservatives' of course.

Cries of: dictator, traitor, communist, RINO, libtard will ring out throughout the land.


All 'conservatives' of course.

[Turbineguy]

5. Years ago I bought 20 acres there.

That was 1992. It was the beginning of the ex-urbia wave, the beginning of work from anywhere. We were planning on building a nice house there.

But my Wife is Asian. I found she was getting some rather disparaging looks from the locals. I decided that perhaps we should change our plans. I sold the property and that was that.

[raising2moredems]

7. You should have sat on the property..

Then sold it to someone with big bucks who did *not* fit the make america white again persona.