rural pnw is viciously racist. it's where many of the confederates went after the civil war because they could not tolerate living among black people without racialized slavery.

oregon's history, in particular, is as deeply racist as it is hidden from the incurious https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2020/06/oregons-founders-sought-a-white-utopia-a-stain-of-racism-that-lives-on-even-as-state-celebrates-its-progressivism.html