fellow ridiculous historians, we are returning to you with a classic episode.

This is, true story, one of the, one of the first episodes we did when we had decided

we were going to do an episode about every state.

Yeah, that's true.

And did you know, but I sure didn't at the time, that Oregon, the very progressive and

crunchy state of Oregon, think of places like Portland,

of course, was once, in fact, a completely right-leaning white supremacists haven where people of

color were not allowed to own property, were kept out. And it's something that very weirdly has affected the legacy of that part of the state

in terms of like the makeup of its population to this very day.

If I can jump in real quick, what's kind of sad is there's still a lot of this inorgan.

Absolutely.

We talk about that in the fringes, not certainly in Portland, where it's very liberal and all that,

but there is a lot of little pockets of really bad neo-Nazi activity in Oregon.

In fact, Oregon is unique in that they never allowed slavery as a state.

And the reason they didn't allow slavery is because they were that racist.

This is a true story.

We couldn't be more happy to welcome you to this classic episode featuring the man,

the myth, the legend, our pal Robert Evans, the creator of Behind the Bastards.

Robert, just in advance, man, thanks for hanging out with us. He's always such a gas.

Back in 2018, thank you to Pastor. Robert. You're a good guy and a great podcaster and researcher.

And I'm super excited to have this one come out as a classic. Let's roll it.

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