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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other thing about California is that it didn't receive large numbers of Black folks during the Great Migration, as it was not an industrial center.

So, the dwindling numbers of Black people in Oakland and LA are definitely cause for concern, but there are historical reasons why the Black population of California was never more than maybe 10%. [/quote]

+1. That's the primary reason.[/quote]

+2. Likewise Washington and Oregon. [/quote]

Well, Oregon was founded as a Klan state (and used to encompass much of present-day Washington), so that's a bit of a different kettle of fish.  [/quote]

Oregon became a state in the 1850s. The Klan did not exist until after 1865.  Oregon territory included all of present day Washington State, but when Oregon became a state it did not.

So much misinformation on this thread. [/quote]

You are right about when it was founded, but you forgot the part about the state's constitution forbidding blacks to live, work or own property there.

http://gizmodo.com/oregon-was-founded-as-a-racist-utopia-1539567040

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Thank you.

To the other PP.  Ok.  You're right.  Oregon was not founded as a Klan state.  It was founded as a whites-only state, that later became very attractive to the Klan, and that at one point hosted the headquarters of the Aryan Nations.  I have obviously thoroughly maligned the state. [/quote]

Several  lower midwestern states excluded blacks before the Civil War - IIUC, Illinois did. So they, along with of course all the southern and border states, would have been attractive to the Klan. Which in fact was active in the South only after the Civil war, and was active in the south and  in many midwestern and northeastern states in the 1920s.   There was no particular connection to Oregon, that I am aware of.

The Aryan Nation, IIUC was HQ in Idaho.   Not that most people in Idaho liked the AN.

Someone wants to smear Oregon for some reason - I guess because it is seen as progressive, and someone does not like progressives.   So I guess this is not ignorance, so much as malice.  [/quote]

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