Portland’s weird, politically speaking. Before I came I’d always heard of it as super-liberal. But that’s not quite right, it’s progressive as in Era - distrust of electioneering in favor of a weirdly functional libertarian technocratic welfare state, rule by white men with advanced degrees in a learned - which is not to say academic - tone, citizen input welcome on the condition that they uplift themselves to match. Very big on public services but absolutely committed to holding to budget, all the “right” social stances but I have never seen a culture so unapologetically tailored to well-educated straight male northern european small business owners.