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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
Nowadays, most of what other people would construe as racism elsewhere simply stems from ignorance here; quite frankly, we are a very white state. Half of the state is occupied by xenophobic rednecks.
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Yeah, this doesn't surprise me, either. It's funny, I don't know why people see Oregon as a bastion of tolerance and hippie-ness... growing up in the Pac NW, I've always considered the rural parts of our area to be one of the most closed-minded. Eastern WA, hello! I would assume OR has the same clusters of racist population that we do up north, and certainly Idaho has its share. We might be fairly liberal up in that corner of the nation, but we're far, far, FAR from perfect. (Hard as that is to admit, lol.)
