Up north of Seattle, many of us are Scandinavians. My theory is that we're jealous. We see what Scandinavia's become, and where America ended up, and it looks like we, or our ancestors, fucked up big-time. We should have stayed home. And we're pissed. We have this uptight little Dutch town up north that just allowed dancing and drinking in the same establishment recently, when we could have had Amsterdam. Damn.
But it doesn't work. Racism is so stupid that you can't satirize it. I could quote Brian Eno's "Seven Deadly Finns" here and someone on the right is going to take me seriously and bring up black metal, and someone on the left is going to accuse me of trying to insidiously promote racism in spite of my apparent denial.
BTW if I see the word 'insidious' again this decade, I'm going to projectile vomit something out of a Cannibal Corpse album. Leave it to Senator McCarthy.
Some locals have their own theories... http://www.nwcitizen.com/entry/bellingham-its-the-mercury1
Oh, and BTW, north of Everett, and east of the mountains, there are quite a number of legal and permanent residents and citizens as well as immigrants of Hispanic background. It's been that way for a long time. Only southwest Washington and the far West have no significant number of people of Mexican descent.
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