How did Seattle and Portland become radicalized? (wages, generation, drugs)
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I use to live there, it was a very segregated and very liberal place to live ... The education swung very far left but the parents were also pretty liberal as well... The companies there promoted liberal agenda in public but in private had a very different idea of what their part was.... The essentially ran the government... When I lived there I always found it odd that Democrats said the Republicans represented Big Business... That was an obvious lie but nobody cares anyways.. it was a catchy propaganda phrase they wanted to believe in... So you got what you got..
I live in Cali and people are going to leave in droves. They've been moving to Idaho and Montana. In fact some native people in those states have been complaining.
Newsom's announcement about gas cars might inspire people to leave. Also defunding the police, crime, homelessness, fires, high taxes.
Regarding my original question - Seattle back in 1992 was radicalized because Californians moved there?
Wildly successful capitalism and mild climates making them such desirable places to live that people are priced out of generational homes and things like income inequality, non-living wages, gentrification, etc gain traction.
I live in Cali and people are going to leave in droves. They've been moving to Idaho and Montana. In fact some native people in those states have been complaining.
Newsom's announcement about gas cars might inspire people to leave. Also defunding the police, crime, homelessness, fires, high taxes.
Regarding my original question - Seattle back in 1992 was radicalized because Californians moved there?
PS I've never seen Portlandia.
I lived in Seattle in the early 90s; Californians were held in very low esteem. I mean anti-Californian billboards and commercials.
Bay Area, Eugene, Portland and Seattle are one continuum of a liberal arc that stretches all the way to Vancouver BC. Books have been written about how these areas started going liberal since the 70s (mostly hippies and drugs during the post Vietnam era), then more so during the environmentalist movements of the 80s, followed by crushing economic events of the early 90's and finally a tech driven boom after that shaping their culture. Migration from the Californian post cold war recession is part of this too. The anarchists on the streets of Portland don't at all reflect the dominant culture there but they are an offshoot of it.
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