I always assumed Portland and all of PNW was super gay, super liberal, and super vaccinated. I mean come on: in 2020 they were in the headlines for Antifa firebombing the federal buildings, and their partner city up north set up Chaz zones in a "summer of love." The PNW is compromised of gay crunchy commie hippies. or so I thought.
Walking around downtown Portland, yes, it's pretty gay. Everything's openly LGBTQ flags and gay dudes strutting around in short shorts. That's fine. I really don't care. What I am surprised by is after talking to a very liberal, very Trump hating friend, she shared how much PNW is openly not super progressive, including fighting the vaccines.
She works in the medical field, and while yes, majority of them succumbed to the medical field demands and got vaxxed, many of them wore pins to work that said things like, "forced against my will" or "they made me do it." They all hated it, and even had Facebook groups complaining of the fact. Apparently crunchy people are generally wary of what they put in their bodies, including untested vaccines.
Then, driving around all mountain towns in Washington state, I saw so many Trump signs and flags in the rural areas, and MAGA hats on older women walking in groups around the mercantile stores and coffee shops. Openly lesbian mercantile stores have women customers wearing MAGA hats. A site to behold.
And lastly, just so many Trump signs around the Portland greater area, including the town north of the river, Vancouver. It was wonderful.
I'm not saying Trump will flip either state, but I am saying I'm pleasantly surprised to see, in notoriously very militantly anti-Trump states, there is now open support and pride for the MAGA movement.
Too much population is centered in Portland Eugene and Bend. The rural parts of the state are lightly populated, snd a huge portion of the state is state and federal forest lands that are essentially without people.
I remember being in California back in 2019, we had gotten off the California Zephyr in Sacramento not knowing that Pride Week started the next day. That next morning I picked up the rental and we drove up to to spend the night in Lake Tahoe before heading down to Las Vegas and once you left the city there wasn't any faggot stuff anywhere. We circled all of Lake Tahoe and didn't see a single rainbow flag either, for the rest of California it was just any other week.
Took this picture today.
I always assumed Portland and all of PNW was super gay, super liberal, and super vaccinated. I mean come on: in 2020 they were in the headlines for Antifa firebombing the federal buildings, and their partner city up north set up Chaz zones in a "summer of love." The PNW is compromised of gay crunchy commie hippies. or so I thought.
Walking around downtown Portland, yes, it's pretty gay. Everything's openly LGBTQ flags and gay dudes strutting around in short shorts. That's fine. I really don't care. What I am surprised by is after talking to a very liberal, very Trump hating friend, she shared how much PNW is openly not super progressive, including fighting the vaccines.
She works in the medical field, and while yes, majority of them succumbed to the medical field demands and got vaxxed, many of them wore pins to work that said things like, "forced against my will" or "they made me do it." They all hated it, and even had Facebook groups complaining of the fact. Apparently crunchy people are generally wary of what they put in their bodies, including untested vaccines.
Then, driving around all mountain towns in Washington state, I saw so many Trump signs and flags in the rural areas, and MAGA hats on older women walking in groups around the mercantile stores and coffee shops. Openly lesbian mercantile stores have women customers wearing MAGA hats. A site to behold.
And lastly, just so many Trump signs around the Portland greater area, including the town north of the river, Vancouver. It was wonderful.
I'm not saying Trump will flip either state, but I am saying I'm pleasantly surprised to see, in notoriously very militantly anti-Trump states, there is now open support and pride for the MAGA movement.
Who knew?
I was there last week. Outside of Portland is entirely Trump country. Too bad it's entirely Mail In Ballots Only
Can the state of Oregon go to Trump?
Yeah, my friend said the states themselves are red, but Portland and Seattle push them blue.
I wish , but it’s mail in only and we know how that will go .
Too much population is centered in Portland Eugene and Bend. The rural parts of the state are lightly populated, snd a huge portion of the state is state and federal forest lands that are essentially without people.
I remember being in California back in 2019, we had gotten off the California Zephyr in Sacramento not knowing that Pride Week started the next day. That next morning I picked up the rental and we drove up to to spend the night in Lake Tahoe before heading down to Las Vegas and once you left the city there wasn't any faggot stuff anywhere. We circled all of Lake Tahoe and didn't see a single rainbow flag either, for the rest of California it was just any other week.
No.
With only mail-in ballots, it's the same in OR as in WA. In OR Multnomah Co. votes for the whole state. In WA, King Co.