Title: Why is Portland, Oregon, so liberal? - Quora
Headings: Why is Portland, Oregon, so liberal?
Why is Portland, Oregon, so liberal?
Content: Intel and its many related businesses have a huge presence. The nature of this work attracts highly educated workers. There’s a strong correlation between between receiving a college education and liberal political leanings. Furthermore, many transplants to Portland are from neighboring California, specifically, the liberal cities in the Bay Area. It’s had groundbreaking, rockstar politicians. There is a legacy of progressive thinking by the politicians of Oregon. In around 1913, Governor Oswald West declared public ownership of the entire Pacific coastline, resulting in public beaches that are free from restriction and enjoyed by residents and visitors to this day. Conservatives of that era (and probably this one) undoubtedly grumbled about “burdensome regulation” and “government overreach” but it turns out most citizens actually like it that way. Senator Wayne Morse was one of only two senators to oppose the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964, escalating the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. Though divisive at the time, history has remembered him favorably.