[durasell]

The resources are:

A)A wide variety of relatively cheap land in a wide variety of environments, mountain, coastal, college town, woods, etc. etc.

B) Plentiful water supply and in some cases geo-thermal.

C) Pockets of a fairly well educated population that can be paid less than they would in, say L.A. or SF or NYC.

D) Larger pockets of fairly cheap construction labor

[Kitanis]

Oregon is my home state while I am in the military.. I was born there and raised there.

Oregon in over twenty or so years had a large influx of California residents who moved into the Portland Metro area and the wester Willimatte Valley.

Now Oregon has a very large liberal population in the Portland Area.. and the Eastern Half has a majority of Conservatives.. the problem is.. Numbers.. the Eastern Half of the state does not have the population to tip the balance of the "liberal" western half.

Oregon went to Kerry during the election.. but it was not because the state leans toward Democrats overall.. its because the liberal leanings in the largest city in the state overides everything for the state.

[foobeca]

Oregon is a beautiful state, but the Portland area is liberal wasteland. It's been invaded by somdomites, Saddamites (American Bathists), tree-huggers, hippies, femanazis, and commie-pinkos.

Despite its vast resources, Portland had the highest unemployment of any large city and Oregon had the highest unemployment of any state during this last recession. I think the unemployment rate was around 10% in Portland back in '02.