Come ON you guys. Yeah, we have stoners and stinky hippies and tree huggers, but if you've bothered to look at a map of Oregon, you'd notice we have a WHOOOLE LOTTA other types , too.
If one were to venture beyond the insular towns with their own ideologies and subcultures suchs as Corvallis, Eugene, P-town, and what Bend has become, you'd see there's a whole rainbow of different types of people in Oregon. Just a few examples are:
The Sweet Home Speed Freak,
The Coos Bay Child Beater,
The Prineville Cowboy/Redneck,
The Grants Pass anti-guv'ment nut.
The ennui filled Ashland Trust Fund Kid.
The Cottage Grove unemployed logger.
The Shaniko hay farmer.
The Enterprise Bronze sculptor.
The Salem Latino gang banger.
The Brownsville stoner/organic farmer.
The Coast Range freak. (Too many towns to mention)
I'm sure a few of you can name at least a few others. Having somebody like Tommy Chong or Alan Watts are over simplified bookends of the spectrum. We need somebody who embodies all (or most) of the Oregon beyond the interstate (s?) resort towns, summer retreats and college towns.