I see these threads pop up all the time and am amazed at the number of people in this state who say, "don't come here. It's screwed up! Go find somewhere else, we gun owners are outnumbered here and it's going to get bad. Take your gun-owning self somewhere else. It's in your best interest."
Fuck that.
You own guns and don't like liberalism? Get your ass up here. Hell, we should be offering to drive down with a fleet of pickups and trailers to help him move, for fuck's sake.
Yes, Portland and Eugene are liberal cesspools. Salem, however, is not as bad. More often than not Marion County goes red in the votes rather than blue. The fact that every other county in the state (most notably Multnomah, Washington, Lane, and Benton) export their biggest morons down to the capitol for months at a time every year is what gives Salem that, well, odor.