I live in the most westerly part of Whidbey Island, Washington. Our county, Island County, is designated a "rural" county, although it is the fourth-most-densely populated county in the Evergreen State. It is a county whose politics have been skewed Republican for many years, between its rurality, its Dutch Calvinist rooted community around the biggest town, Oak Harbor, and the presence of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (or, in Elvish, NASWI).
Follow me over the event horizon for more about my purpling home, and a little video treat about our "Democracy Wall".
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