Become? It was a hellhole back in the mid 80's.
Wrong.
I don't know, but when I was in 8th grade (roughly 1978) we had a new kid show up he said he was from Oregon and somewhere near Portland, anyways I got to talking with him and asked him why he moved to Michigan, he said "'Cause dad said we needed to get away from all the fuqking queers". I remember it so well because the teacher heard him say this and he got in trouble for using the F word.
Remembering that, I tend to believe Oregon has been f'ed up for a while.
