Oregon has Proud Boys and inbred Republican legislators who did that state-fleeing stunt a couple of years ago. Plus, Portland is not as big as DC or Seattle, it's like Pittsburgh or Cincinnati.
Virginia has Vexiteers, the Wolves of Vinland, the children of "massive resistance", and assorted Appalachian skinheads to call its own, and perhaps they're more agitated since they spend more time around non-white people than those in vanilla-toned Oregon. It also has far less of a genuine left-leaning tendency than those in Portland, Eugene, or smaller towns like Corvallis or Ashland, and so may be more likely to return to the fold with a sufficiently friendly candidate.
Neither is flipping, so it's a moot point, but both have clear underbellies of agitation.
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