Anghraine

I just noticed that my Facebook background is still Portland, which is … not where I actually live these days, but also I’m in exile and I suffer

Tagged: #i like wa better than or but portland better than literally anything in wa ... idk #cascadia ftw #i do love it all! just ... portland ;_;

Honestly … I miss northwest Oregon so much :(

Tagged: #anghraine babbles #*sigh* better downgrade this #anghraine whines

[ETA 2/27/2024: I was sad and lonely when I wrote this, more than now, and I actually love Washington State and probably even slightly prefer it to OR as a state, though they're very similar in any case. But I prefer the Portland metro area to everywhere!]

I'm still just kind of boggling that Trump came to Oregon to talk about how he's going to swing the state red and get back to cutting down our trees (*hiss*). And he gave this speech in Eugene, of all places.

If you're not familiar with the peculiarities of the PNW political scene: geographically, most of Oregon and Washington are conservative, particularly Oregon. They get their hardcore progressive reputation (and votes) from small regions west of the Cascades, mostly concentrated in ultra-liberal urban centers like Seattle and Portland and, uh, Eugene—home of the University of Oregon. However, the population is also concentrated in those areas, which produces its own problems. There are more or less local issues, like secessionist sympathies ranging from violent to wistful, and intense environmentalism that is particularly intense among Democrats but part of PNW culture in general. In the last midterm elections, disastrous for Democrats, Republicans had talked about increasing logging and it ... ended badly.

So giving a speech about how he's going to make Oregon great again by chopping down more trees in EUGENE is just "???????????"

But he didn't end his tour of Democratic Cascadia there!

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