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 movethere. Many are conservatives fed up with liberal politics in blue states.
“The division gets wider and wider,” Ms. Navarre said, adding that many of the new arrivals are changing the civility of the community. “My concern is there are so many people who are not nice.”
