On the whole, Idaho is a very, very conservative state. It has almost always voted Republican. It’s current crop of Senators and Representatives are overwhelmingly Republican. That is, the whole state except for Blaine County. In the 60’s and 70’s the valleys (they’re called Gulches here,) in and around Ketchum, Sun Valley, Hailey and Bellevue were havens for hippie communes. There are still small vestiges of the communes and there are definitely scads of old hippies still living and working in the valleys. Add to the ultra-liberal hippies the entertainment industry, which weighs in so heavily here now due to the influx of Hollywood and the music industry in the valley now, and you have a great mixture of liberals and ultra-liberals. The results are things such as the Hemp Plus Granola Cereal I found in Atkinson’s IGA. It’s just on the shelf as if it were a normal, casual product. (For those of you wondering, Hemp is just another name for Marijuana.)
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