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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months agoI don’t even expect Portland to be super liberal. That city has a long history with the KKK.
Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months agoI don’t even expect Portland to be super liberal. That city has a long history with the KKK.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
They tried to make Oregon a whites only state a long while back. Not even wanting slaves, during 1857 when they applied for Statehood they both banned slavery and any free black people from existing in the state. It was more of a “We don’t even want to see them” kind of hatred.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 months ago
That’s some of why East Tennessee and West Virginia sided with the Union in the Civil War, too.
It wasn’t uncommon at the time.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
East TN, West(ern) VA (West Virginia, the state, was admitted to the Union as a breakaway from Virginia State in 1863), and West NC didn’t really benefit from slavery like the rest of their states. There were plenty of independence/Pro-Union movements in that region at the time, like The State of Scott.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pretty sure I also heard about how the clan and the Catholic Church formed an alliance to keep the Chinese immigrants out. It worked, then they turned on each other. Because of course that’s what would happen.