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For years, Portland, OR had an unshakable reputation as America’s whitest city:
“How the whitest city in America appears through the eyes of its black residents” (Washington Post, 2015)
“Portland is the Whitest U.S. City – Why Demographics are Rapidly Shifting” (GoLocalPDX, 2015)
“The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America” (The Atlantic, 2016)
“‘Livability’ in the Whitest City in America” (Story Maps, 2020)
“Is Portland still the whitest big city in America?” (Oregon Live, 2022, and the answer was “yes”)
But now, in what some will view as a milestone and others as a millstone, the City of Roses has been demoted to America’s second-whitest city. (more…)