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They’re not even quiet quitting. They straight up announced that they wouldn’t respond to any noise disturbance call in the Salem area. I feel bad for both the cops and the people because the liberal/conservative split is closer to 50/50 than most would like to admit. It’s just that the liberals are extremely loud in that state.

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I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but from looking at the last two federal election cycles the split doesn’t appear anywhere near 50/50

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_president...

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Senate_el...

Oregon and Washington (and California) have clumpy/non-uniform population distributions. Each has a geographically small, dense, blue, city population surrounded by a geographically large, low density, red, rural region.

That applies to just about every state in the country.

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