DC,  I am waiting for the historian to write about how Oregon has been overcoming its racist past since 1845 when Jesse Applegate and others started the process of changing and eliminating some of Oregon's racist laws in the original Organic Laws, eliminating the KKK in 1925, repealing the Exclusionary Laws in 1927, no Jim Crow, no disenfranchisement, no segregation, etc.  Essentially the Oregon process of overcoming the racism in men's and women's minds.  Has it been easy?  No.  Perfect?  No.  Are there still problems?  Sure.  But it is and always will be a continuous process that seems to be working.