# Aryan Nation Wants to Move to Grant County, Oregon **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 26, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569 "2010-02-26T20:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/41 "2010-03-02T21:45:14Z")
> [@fifty-six](#): > > That type of person in the link is so common up here. They are average crackpots. And is one of the reasons I left. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/42 "2010-03-02T21:57:18Z")
> [@mecaenas](#): > > Excellent! Now we shall assimilate them into our global monoculture! We will force them to use the metric system, stop tipping in restaurants, start using the word “fortnight” and, worst of all.. embrace a variation of Universal Health Care! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! Don’t forget putting the “u” in “colour” and the second “i” in “aluminium” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/43 "2010-03-03T03:49:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I believe this “Pacific Northwest as White Nationalist homeland” idea goes back at least to the 1980s. Nothing has ever come of it. Maybe we can move them to an active volcano and hope for an explosion 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/44 "2010-03-03T09:18:52Z")
My mom’s from central Oregon and owns property in Grant county. She said there were 400 people at these town meetings, which is unheard of in John Day. I said “Oh so you mean everyone in town was there?” 😃 She wrote a letter of support to the city government to keep them out, for what it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/45 "2010-03-03T10:13:27Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > My mom’s from central Oregon and owns property in Grant county. She said there were 400 people at these town meetings, which is unheard of in John Day. I said “Oh so you mean everyone in town was there?” 😃 She wrote a letter of support to the city government to keep them out, for what it’s worth. The Aryan Nation or the United Nations? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/46 "2010-03-03T12:26:39Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Maybe we can move them to an active volcano and hope for an explosion 😃 You want the stupid blown into the stratosphere so it can drift downwind and settle across the country? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/47 "2010-03-03T13:32:43Z")
The UN issue in Grant County is about the creation of a UN World Heritage Site. The Aryan Nation is trying to preserve its own heritage. Therefore . . . ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/48 "2010-03-03T13:51:59Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > The UN issue in Grant County is about the creation of a UN World Heritage Site. > > The Aryan Nation is trying to preserve its own heritage. > > Therefore . . . But do we really need to set aside a place to preserve stupidity as part of our heritage? It doesn’t seem to be in short supply everywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/49 "2010-03-03T15:40:46Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > Oregon has been a dumping ground of loonybins for many a long year (along with Idaho). I don’t really understand why – the coastal regions are lovely, but you head east and it starts to get ugly. I think I heard about this - presumably, the land values are cheap. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/50 "2010-03-03T15:58:23Z")
> [@Tinkertoy](#): > > The Aryan Nation or the United Nations? Nitpick: it’s _Aryan Nations_, not The Aryan Nation. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/51 "2010-03-04T03:01:31Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > You want the stupid blown into the stratosphere so it can drift downwind and settle across the country? I hadn’t thought of that. It could be contagious :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/52 "2010-03-04T14:46:52Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > Oregon has been a dumping ground of loonybins for many a long year (along with Idaho). I don’t really understand why – the coastal regions are lovely, but you head east and it starts to get ugly. In Joel Garreau’s [Nine Nations of North America](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_nations_of_north_america) analysis, western Oregon – west of the watershed of the Cascades – is part of “Ecotopia” (the whole coastal Pacific Northwest from San Francisco to Anchorage) while eastern Oregon is part of “The Empty Quarter” (what everyone thinks of as “the West,” or at least that part of the West north of “Mexamerica”). The key difference is that Ecotopia has a lot more water. Why that should make such a big cultural difference I do not know. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569/53 "2010-03-04T14:54:41Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The key difference is that Ecotopia has a lot more water. Why that should make such a big cultural difference I do not know. Dehydration makes you psycho? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aryan-nation-wants-to-move-to-grant-county-oregon/530569.md?page=2)