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Archive Home > 2006 > October > 01 > Demographic changes cause rift in state politics

Demographic changes cause rift in state politics

Older voters in rural areas contrast with young city dwellers

By Susan Goodwin / The Bulletin
October 1, 2006

Oregon voters today don't look or act like they did in the 1960s and 1970s, when Newsweek wrote a story praising Oregon's political system as an example of government working for the public's interest.

A lot has changed since then.

A number of demographic and economic changes, intimately linked,....

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