See this article about Nazi swastika flags being flown on several recent occasions in Tigard, Oregon. For those of you who haven't paid attention, Oregon is a very odd place. I spent three years there as a graduate student, and have rarely gone back.
West of the Cascades the weather is dreary to the point of suicide for about 8 months a year, constant gray overcast and intermittent light rain daily. The Lewis and Clark party wintered over in Oregon and hated it. Oddly, in summer and early fall the weather is so nice that vacationers passing through think "what a wonderful place to live." Wrong. It is however a wonderful place to summer vacation.
The bizarre TV series Twin Peaks easily could have been set in small town Oregon instead of small town Washington. Oregonians hate Californians, love trees either to hug or to cut down, and have a tendency to political extremism in either direction. A typical OR oddity: you can't pump your own gas in Oregon, they have to pump it for you.
