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People always expect Oregon and Washington to be super liberal but once you leave the city it's a bunch of hicks in the woods (respectfully)
I don't even expect Portland to be super liberal. That city has a long history with the KKK.
They tried to make Oregon a whites only state a long while back. Not even wanting slaves, during 1857 when they applied for Statehood they both banned slavery and any free black people from existing in the state. It was more of a "We don't even want to see them" kind of hatred.
That's some of why East Tennessee and West Virginia sided with the Union in the Civil War, too.
It wasn't uncommon at the time.
East TN, West(ern) VA (West Virginia, the state, was admitted to the Union as a breakaway from Virginia State in 1863), and West NC didn't really benefit from slavery like the rest of their states. There were plenty of independence/Pro-Union movements in that region at the time, like The State of Scott.
Pretty sure I also heard about how the clan and the Catholic Church formed an alliance to keep the Chinese immigrants out. It worked, then they turned on each other. Because of course that's what would happen.
Pretty much the story of every blue state.
Red Country, Blue City is pretty much the case with every state. The most liberal people I've ever met were in Asheville, North Carolina, and I've never been surrounded by more MAGA-loving chuds than when I spent a summer in Redding, California.
Former Asheville punk, turned loose in the hick side of southwest Nova Scotia. I've seen a disturbing amount of MAGA here, enough to rivel my time in North Carolina... But In Canada.
Shit is wild. Everyone here is xenophobic and racist as it gets.
Also former. Did you get gentrified out of the city too? Have you been back since you left? That town is unrecognizable even to how it was just ten years ago.
Isn't this the story of every rural area in every country? Communities that are out in the middle of nowhere won't have had much cultural exchange and tend to become insular.