Jim Redden is wrong on carpetbaggers

Jim Redden of the Portland Tribune says his friend Bill Wyatt solved the question of carpetbagging politicians 44 years ago.

And he is right.  That election started the slide away from native rule in Oregon towards immigrant rule in Oregon.  For 44 years, that rule has been accelerating.

I for one say immigrant rule has been an unmitigated disaster for Oregon.  

While Nick Kristoff is indeed Oregon born, he spent four out of the last six decades outside of this state, writing for the New York Times.  He has about as much idea how his neighbors in Yamhill County live as people in Portland understand a native 'gone rancher in Chemult.

The influx of foreign ideas into this state, particularly from New Yorkers and Californicators, has been especially disastrous.

So perhaps it is time to revisit foreign influence on Oregon.  Time to revisit rule by those who took away our language of  Chinook Wawa to replace it with drug and sex abuse.