Think of it the other way. Would Vancouver BC and the rest of BC except Oregon, Washington and Northern California? And then there is Idaho, Western Montana and the Alaskan Panhandle (that might take major economic crises before they wake up). What will be the tipping point for 'southern Cascadians" to get pissed enough to say "to Hell with Fascist Amerika!" Will it be a draft? Economic collapse? The erosion of state's rights (in the form of taking away Death With Dignity, Medical Marjuana use or the total destruction of the state's National Guards)? Will it be "Peak Oil"?

As for the region being one region in the past. It actually was one region prior to 1846 Oregon Treaty after two years of military threat by the US expansionist President James Knox Polk. Polk caused huge diplomatic chaos with his presidential campaign of "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!" in 1844. He even fortified the existing Canadian-US border of the time hoping for a conflict with the British. Most modern Amerikans do not realize that American foriegn policy that Polk and Jackson pushed for radically changed US foriegn policy from a isolationist democractic republic to an imperialist anti-European country under Polk. Most modern Amerikans also do not have the education to understand the division in the US over Polk and Jackson's decision to create an expansionist policy. These men are often portrayed in modern reconstructionist history, but almost brought the US to civil conflict several times.