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Oh yea, I'm sure the South is way better on the racism front :/
I get when you can't leave a shitty place because of money or whatever, but moving to an actively and increasingly hostile place regardless of family/support networks doesn't seem like the best move :/
You're missing their point. The west doesn't have as large of a black community as the rest of the country because of things like Oregon being founded by white supremacists with a no black people allowed rule. The south might be more racist, but it has a large black community because of slavery.
It's different in that black communities are allowed to exist. They have not been in much of the west
Oh you mean the Southern "black communities" that racists have been herding POC of too for decades so that they stayed in the worst part of town with the worst prospects and did everything they could to make them "ghettos" and trap them there? Those black communities?
I think it's obvious why those aren't in the West.
Yes, in many parts of the west they were not even allowed those marginalized communities. For all intents and purposes, Oregon was a ‘sundown state’ until the civil rights era. I have coworkers whose deed to the house they bought still has (obviously now unenforceable) language in it stating that the house may only be sold to a person of caucasian descent. Oregon was anti-slavery, not because they opposed slavery, but because it would bring people of color into the state. I say all of this as a southerner who was shocked to learn the racial history when I moved here to Oregon.
Portland may be progressive today, but that is a recent development, and the rural portions of the state still fly a traitorous flag.