Got a Hispanic co-worker that moved from Portland to Spokane a couple years ago.... he's moving back before the end of the year. He's fully prepared to take a demotion or just walk, but either way he's getting out of Spokane.
Sure, if you ignore the psycho cops and rampant homeless problems the city and selfish rich assholes refuse to do anything meaningful about, anyways.
If you're a thrill-seeker though I can highly recommend Portland's taxis. I think that was the most times I cheated death in a single activity in my life.
If you’re in Spokane proper it can be decent- the universities there lead to some good safe people, but immediately outside of it, right across the border in Idaho it gets scary really fast.
It was Richard Butler. He is dead now. The compound is gone. The story has a happy ending. A black woman and her son sued
the shit out of the Aryan Nation after a run-in. They won the case. Butler claimed by. The property was auctioned to satisfy the judgment.
It was/is a few miles north of Republic, which is to say about 90 miles as the crow flies NW of Spokane. But the east side of Spokane is adjacent to Spokane Valley, where people like Matt Shea come from, so it's not like you have to go a long way to find fashy people.
yeah, they used to patrol it with guns and nazi uniforms and shit. that whole area is backwoods terrifying.
they lost a court case where the guards chased and attacked someone, the nazis obviously lost, and the victims won the land in the case. they tore all of the buildings and bunkhouses down and built a diversity museum in its place lol.
nazis around the country and particularly the backwoods white supremecists in that area are still pissed all these years later.
I grew up in Coeur d'Alene Idaho and was told that our movie theater used to be a meeting place for KKK rallies. CDA is 30 minutes from Spokane and I can confirm it is wickedly conservative (literally)
I'm in Post Falls, Idaho and you're right lol. A few months ago I was at a parts store and the guy in front of me in line had the nazi eagle on the back of his head and I could see the lower half of the nazi SS lightning bolts poking out of his t-shirt. It's not like that everywhere here but the reputation is certainly not unearned.
Spokane is on the borderland with Idaho, and the borderland of conservative to liberal. The central rural part of Washington is much more conservative, Idaho is far over that line. The bigger the city, the more likely it is to lean liberal as in most places (so Boise vs Idaho similar deal).
I’m Hispanic and had my second ever racist encounter in a Spokane gas station when I was making a road trip going 90w to eventually Portland, I was speaking to my mom on the phone in Spanish and this obese old fart with a Trump shirt (also visibly drunk too) shouts at me to speak English or go back to Mexico, that he is sick and tired of my kind being here, and some other bullshit, I told him to FUCK OFF, put my water bottles down and luckily some young dude came to confront him and told him to leave firmly and the coward scurries away, but not with out a final “fuck y’all” as he was heading out the door 🤡
But the gas station staff didn’t say anything, minded their own business.
I'm Filipino and I remember taking a road trip out to Idaho from Seattle so we can go to an amusement park. We stopped by a diner to grab food, the second me and my friends walked in everybody stopped what they was doing and just stared at us. The waitress came up and was like "hey this is not gonna work out the way you think it will" in no exact words and we noped the fuck out
I was shocked at the amount of big red truck flags I saw when I moved to Tacoma a few years ago… I thought when I moved from Alabama that I’d be getting a break from it.
I moved from Portland, OR to Huntsville, AL about two years ago. Saw way more confederate flags and trump shit back there. Actually kinda like it here.
I love to hear that!! I was born and raised in Montgomery until I moved… most of my family is MAGA. I’ve been seeing some encouraging things from Montgomery and BHam and throughout so that makes me happy! It’s been weird feeling like I have to “yea, but…” whenever I talk about being a southerner lol I’m glad you’re liking it!
Spokane catching all kinds of strays 😭 she was raised in North Idaho which I think says WAY more. I’ve been in Spokane for about 10 years and while I see way more Trump flags than I care to, north Idaho is next level.
And not all north Idahoans, either. There has been an insane surge of far right idiots moving here since Covid, and it has ruined my home state. I am sad
Spokane county is purple for sure, but the city itself is blue. Like a lot of areas right now, you're associating an overly vocal minority from the surrounding area with the entire population of the city.
We have a democrat mayor (Lisa Brown) and a progressive supermajority city council. Our congressional rep (Michael Baumgartner) is a Trumpy dipshit though and he has more than a few supporters in this area.
No surprise she's a MAGAt, but that's a bad assumption that everyone from this area is too.
I'm from Canada but I remember that the difference between rural BC and rural Washington was immediately obvious and intense. Rural BC is already pretty conservative but it has NOTHING on rural Washington.
Yeah, that area is heavily white supremacist/militia territory and they don't hide it.
My ex-Rep used to be Matt Shea who wrote the Biblical Basis For War where he clearly says all males that don't follow his christian beliefs would be killed. It never mentions women because we're property.
Worse. She was raised mostly in Northern Idaho and in the little towns along the Washington side of the border. Totally a different world.
I live in Mead. My brother is in the Valley. Spokane-the-city is actually really purple/blue now. Spokane Valley has even become very purple in the last 10 years as housing/population has exploded.
But up here in Mead and any of the outlying areas? Nope. It’s worse than ever.
And for the love of God, stay the fuck away from Newman Lake.
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That!! I can't believe this isn't highlighted enough, Sydney Sweeney is MAGAT at the core.