If this surprises you, you should look up the demographics in Oregon and in Washington and how they got there.
Further, if it surprises you, you should ask yourself if you really think the whitest areas of the country are really as progressive as they like to make themselves out to be.
It’s easy to say you’re supportive of other cultures and aren’t a racist when you never actually interact with anyone but other white people.
Source: I grew up in racist farm-town Eastern Washington, where half the businesses had “English Only” signs which really were saying “we don’t serve brown people.” Later, living in Western Washington, I got to see how clueless the white liberals are about actual race relations.
From our State Capitol: https://komonews.com/news/local/olympia-parent-claims-student-bipoc-club-promotes-segregation-washington-state-school-centennial-elementary-students-education-backlash
I found the above while I was trying to find an article about a BIPOC club at Olympia’s South Puget Sound Community College being forced to allow white members, which I recall happening around 2016. Olympia is often considered a safe haven for trans folks, but this kind of shit shows they’re less progressive than they think they are.
We lived in Oregon for a while, fairly recently and boy does the PNW have a very racist past. Back when it was the Oregon territory black people could only work there for a certain amount of years and couldn’t own land. In the 1930’s-1950’s Portland had the largest KKK organization west of the Mississippi. Had to look all this up when I saw a guy wearing a confederate flag sweatshirt at Home Depot and then saw one hanging over a driveway way up in the cascades. Portland used to be a very whites only town, wild how it has shifted. But get outside of any of the larger cities and it is thick trump country.
You also have a good chunk of southern Oregon people who are in favor of the state of Jefferson, look that up if you have time to kill lol
The brown round-up is too long, let’s just call it the Browndup.
