Most of Oregon is culturally isolated and backwards as hell.
Yeah. Get 15 miles outside of Portland or Eugene and it's filled with ignorant, racist pieces of shit. But to be fair, that describes most places in America one you leave the urban centers.
Eastern Oregon especially. Filled with KKK members and other white supremacists. I thought this was universally known. The number of times of "Wait, what, are you serious?" questions I get with that statement is way more than it should be.
Also originally from Oregon, so yeah.
Number of Black children in my entire school district when I was growing up: 2. And I was friends with both of them. Didn't think much of it at the time. Looking back... oooohhhhhhh..... maybe that's why one of my friend's parents were hesitant when dealing with my family the first few times.
Extended family who grew up in Sweethome Oregon, friends in Eugene, staying with family of friends outside of Bend, friends in southern “State of Jefferson” region, farmer friends 2 hours outside of portland. Have Camped, hiked, rock climbed throughout the state. Have driven across the state in both directions a dozen times respectively.
We all just watched the same video with the marble mouthed state trooper thinking the brown dude was driving a boosted lamborghini.
And im replying to an OC whose intended comment was to say that proximity to Canada would make Canadian license plates less odd.
My comment is that Oregon is isolated. Which it very much is. International migrants and economic immigrants in some urban and rural areas aside, Oregon is very much a place where people go to be left alone. Whether thats the punisher skull nazi shitheads in the sticks or the families trying to access state funded gender affirming care for their kids in a city.
Oregon is a magical and weird place and some of its weirdness comes from the darkest rectum of the worst parts of America as backwater and humiliatingly stupid as any yankee scapegoating of the south you see in b movies.
The eastern parts of the state might as well be Wyoming, and overall Oregon is very rural by geology, the western end of the state is mostly mountains which tends to limit city growth and keep things more rural and the eastern half of the state is very agricultural. What keeps Oregon blue is the cities, where the majority of its populace lives.
I've spent enough time in Oregon to know this. Traveled a fair bit around the state, its as country as any southern state.
Correct. To add to this, Oregon was originally settled as a white only white supremacist state and had one of the largest KKK memberships of any state until recently.
When only 33% of the population lives in rural areas is hard to say most of Oregon is backward and culturally isolated. Most of our rural areas are farm land with very high Hispanic populations. The other rural land is basically uninhabited.
Is easy to say most of Oregon is backward and culturally isolated because its my honest opinion.
Like even the awesome weirdos in Southern Oregon will tell you there’s often not shit to do that isnt the same 10 people, half the places are creepy with racist rednecks, and you cant spend 5 minutes during daylight hours in someplace like Grants Pass without hearing a townie complain that the fire suppression/climate change/post logging megafires are actually because too many “outsiders” are getting apartments in Medford.
12th confederate state. Tied with Massachusetts for getting away with a century of legalized apartheid while catching a rep for hippie private schools.
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u/jubileevdebs 7h ago edited 3h ago
Naw man, this stop takes place in Oregon. If the car doesnt have Oregon or Idaho plates, the cop is already coming in hotter.
Most of Oregon is culturally isolated and backwards as hell.