Linda Navarre moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, from Cleveland in 1978, when the town consisted of people in the timber industry and hippies “and they all got along.” Now she barely recognizes the small resort community near the Canadian border that is quickly growing as people disenchanted with big city life move there. Many are conservatives .
Real estate agents are pitching to people on the right who might want to move from liberal bastions such as Seattle and San Francisco to places like rural Idaho.