Oregon used to be a great state. A wider variety of natural resources are available in Oregon than any other state in the Union. The Willamette Valley is truly beautiful, fecund, and temperate. There are good reasons why people made the long, long trek from Missouri out to Oregon.
So, what happened?
Portland has always been a shit hole (see the Shanghai tunnels) and socialists have been around in Oregon for a long time, but things didn't really go south until ((people)) spread from California and their kibbutz, Eugene, started "improving" things.
Neil "Pedo" ((Goldschmidt)) was the resounding turd who really changed things and is a huge story in himself. Of course, with the whole globalist free market push from GWB onward – coupled with the incredibly misled ecoterrorists – local commerce was either destroyed, conglomerated, or replaced (see the forestry, agricultural, and technology industries respectively for examples). With new globalist fiends of the state like Nike and Intel and the help of Goldshit et al, immigration and other laws were relaxed.
In the 1980s spics started flooding all the agri jobs, largely overflow from California, but soon developing large populations. I saw heroin and meth become pushed by the brown gangs throughout Portland, Salem, Medford, and, of course, Beaverton during this.
SURPRISE – big ass meth and heroin problem hits Oregon whites in the 90s, good mill/fishing/farming jobs disappear, the school system becomes incredibly cucked, and Jews start swarming into Portland (see archive.is/swyUY). It also had sizeable Arab terrorist cells in "liberal paradises" like Ashland, Corvallis, and Eugene. (no joke)
A state that was over 90% white a couple decades ago, is now approaching 70% (especially counting the illegals) and has one of the most corrupt governments, bloated welfare systems, and drugged out populations in the country.
For a microcosm of all this, remember back after 2000 that Oregon tried to to pass a GMO labeling bill. It was opposed by the giant agribusiness farms, processors, etc and they spent more fighting it than any other measure in Oregon's (maybe the Nation's?) history. Even back then, there was still a sense of independent thought and distrust of big corporations.
In the new, blindly obedient Oregon, the liberals in Oregon fought hard to defeat a far smaller GMO disclosure bill last year, pass vaccine requirement laws, push fluoridation, and support shit like the TPP. These sheep aren't really about principles, but just play follow the crowd right off the cliff – even if that means switching sides in just a decade (see the Defense of Marriage debacle).
Oregon is so fucked… But, don't worry. You can get stoned, have an underage gay for pay prostitute, and still become major there. You'll even get to do cameos in Portlandia.
Fucking-a.