Oregon (and to a smaller extent other parts of the Pacific Northwest) have a serious history of racism, and some of that legacy remains through to today.

Oregon

• Oregon has the 10th lowest African-American population of the 50 states (by percentage), only slightly ahead of Wyoming, Utah, and North/South Dakota [2010]
• "Local Color", a video by Oregon Public Broadcasting, about Oregon's legacy of racism [1999]
• "The Pacific Northwest is, statistically, one of the last Caucasian bastions in the United States. ... Washington and Oregon have among the lowest percentages of African-Americans in the country (3.1 percent and 1.6 percent of the population, respectively). Racism has a long history in Oregon. " [1998]
• "Why aren't there more black people in Oregon?" [2012]
• Historic Tours of Discrimination, the Fair Housing Council of Oregon

Portland

• "Portland is ... one of the most homogenous metropolitan cities in the country" [2011]
• 2010 Census shows diversity dwindling