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Fun fact - The “most communist state in America” was founded pretty much as an apartheid territory. State constitution actually banned black people, and they had the highest KKK membership per capita of any US state during the Klan resurgence of The 20s. They did not ratify the 15th amendment until the 1950s. White supremacists and other Christian dominionist freaks are prevalent in Oregon.
So really it’s not surprising that fringey Oregonian Republicans would vote for some Q loony toon in a primary election.
A bit more info on that subject
Oregon's racially discriminatory state constitutional amendment, Section 35, was legally invalidated after the Civil War by the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the federal Constitution in 1868. However, Section 35 remained formally on the books for another 58 years. In 1925, the Oregon legislature proposed the formal repeal of Section 35, adopted as House Joint Resolution 8 (1925). The measure was referred to Oregon voters as a 1926 ballot initiative which was approved with 62.5% in favor
https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/15th_amendment/#.XslIdsBlCUk