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Southern Oregon

Southern Oregon

Region in Oregon, United States

This article is about the southern region of the U.S. state of Oregon. For the University, see Southern Oregon University. For the Oregon wine region, see Southern Oregon AVA.

Southern Oregon is a region of the U.S. state of Oregon south of Lane County and generally west of the Cascade Range, excluding the southern Oregon Coast. Counties include Douglas, Jackson, Klamath, and Josephine. It includes the Southern Oregon American Viticultural Area, which consists of the Umpqua and Rogue River drainages. As of 2015, the population in the four counties is about 471,000, and in the greater, seven-county definition, it is about 564,000.[1][2]

Dark red denotes counties that are always included in the definition, while light red denotes counties that are only sometimes included.

Counties

Always included:

Total population: 471,013

Sometimes included:

Total seven-county population: 564,446

Cities

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Politics

Southern Oregon generally supports candidates of the Republican Party in both state and federal elections, but some liberal outliers such as Ashland and Port Orford mean Democrats are usually able to win larger shares of the vote in this region compared to Eastern Oregon. Other than Jackson County, which is considered a swing county, no Democrat has won any county of Southern Oregon in presidential elections since 1996 using the seven-county definition, or since 1964 using the four-county definition. Josephine County has not supported a Democrat for president since 1936.

See also

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Southern Oregon.

References

  1. [1]
    "County Totals Dataset: Population, Population Change and Estimated Components of Population Change: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015". Archived from the original on July 8, 2016. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Population Estimates for Oregon and its Counties" (PDF). Population Research Center, Portland State University. December 15, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 26, 2008.

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