Interesting.  Then again Oregon had very little attraction black people  or Jewish people during those years.    It's like saying those in the small town midwest aren 't prejudiced either.  Well, it's pretty easy to be tolerant when the minority population is so small it posses very little threat.       

But I can attest by private experience that racial bigotry was present in the early 1960's for whatever my small experience might be worth.  I wouldn't sanitize Oregon of racial bias in earlier decades based on reading of the KKK only.

Oregon's KKK today are just as focused on white supremacy as the national charter outlines.