What strikes me as interesting in this story is the target audience of the organization's campaign.

The target audience is left-wing. All the voice-overs, the graphics, the storyline, all of it is written to a very particular audience. That audience is precisely the type of people who already live in Portland.

Here I see the continuing trend of de-facto segregation of the US. There are places becoming more liberal oriented (New York, Illinois, western Oregon, Washington west of the Cascade mountains), and others becoming more conservative oriented (Florida, Texas, South Dakota, Idaho). Videos like this one will continue this trend. The invitation they are offering will concentrate their liberal base only more strongly.

Assuming these trends continue, a nice experiment is setting up. We may just get to see the two ideologies in increasingly clear comparison. Look at how the areas represented by each "camp" do, and make up our minds. May the stronger ideology win.

Tough on the losers, given the level of violence developing in some of these places, but if that's where they choose to live, so be it.

If only the feds weren't tipping the scales in one direction, this experiment might not even have to last that long. But of course Washington, DC is anything but a neutral party during this process.