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Arguably the real reason many people are keen to move to Portland, especially from California, is that it's the whitest city in North America.

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I presume by "arguably" you mean "I have a bizarrely distorted worldview and therefore I'm going to assert this fact that I have just produced from the depths of my colon."

No, actually it was the articles about white flight from California I've encountered over the last few years.

And the reason those articles stated was that people were leaving for "whiter cities"? I think that's a stretch. The last I heard a lot of people were leaving California because the white collar jobs were leaving California. As I'm sure you're aware, there are more white people working white-collar jobs, so maybe that's the reason, eh?

If those articles said that people were leaving because California wasn't "white enough" or whatever, I'd love to see them.

LOL, well I wouldn't call that a "reason", but yeah, it's white as fuck here. I have no idea why, but that's the way it is.

Mob violence and various laws, actually. More than once mobs in the Northwest rounded up Asians and marched them to the docks.

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