• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Idaho is a fucking apocalypse like what? You do NOT want to live in Idaho unless you are literally a Nazi. Yes Idaho can be gorgeous, no that doesn’t make it worth it.

      North Idaho came up a lot during my time at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the storied civil rights watchdog where I worked from 2018 through 2023. The region seemed to have an uncanny ability to attract bigots from elsewhere in the country. But Leigh McOmber, a 57-year-old resident I met last summer at Coeur d’Alene’s annual Pride celebration, recalled a time when the area felt far more tolerant.

      “When I hear people who have just moved here in the last few years talk about Idaho values being these horrific, anti-LGBTQ, racist, awful opinions, this is not what Idaho…was,” she said, reflecting on the decades she’s lived in the region. “It was never like that.”

      By the 1970s, though, neo-Nazis were arriving.

      https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/coeur-dalene-cda-idaho-donald-trump-kootenai-county-republicans/

      No thank you

      • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        Idaho wants so badly to be the middle finger state, but let’s not forget the wrist, arm, etc. behind it, after all. 🤌🏼