Paul, Luckily I'm not from Eastern Oregon or Idaho.  Did you ever hear the joke of:  Do you know why it is so windy in Oklahoma?  Because Texas sucks.  When I was younger I thought it was a pretty good joke.  Then I had a professor from Oklahoma.  We seemed to be getting along pretty well as the semester went by so one day I thought I would reverse the joke (substitute TX for OK and OK for TX).  She didn't think it was funny at all, I was lucky it didn't affect my grade.  I learned a very valuable lesson about jokes.