I get over to CDA every couple of years or so, usually in the context of going to the hospitals in the Spokane area. Last time I was there, I was under the impression that CDA was becoming more purple, with the influx of out-of-state wealth buying up homes in the area.
It is, especially since the covids, and the residents aren't happy. It was fairly consistent that most of the liberal leaning people would move to the Boise area and the ex-cops, strongly conservative, etc. would move to CDA. Now CDA is getting more and more telecommuters and hippies and homes are hitting a million dollars.
Locals aren't thrilled. I mentioned elsewhere that youtube has been sending me "moving to Idaho" video recommendations, and even the realtors who want to sell homes are making warning videos to "people from CA, Portland, and those places" that they had better be prepared to see conservative values and if they want to change those, "maybe move somewhere else".
It seems that advice is being ignored more and more. Which is also why conservatives here have been getting more and more militant right to counteract that stuff and try and make us less attractive to liberal telecommuters. The primaries this week certainly reinforced that. While McCeachen didn't win for Governor, lots of "Idaho rino" incumbents that got crappy Freedom Index scores were ousted. Especially in areas like mine that got redistricted.
