As a lifelong Oregonian, I am in the minority. Think of Oregon as Northern California, as most residents are California imports. Here is a website to give you economic data for various counties in Oregon:
http://www.qualityinfo.org/olmisj/OlmisZine
No need to brief me on how to think of Oregon—I know her well—my family ties go back more than a century, with a great-great grandmother buried in Salem. I was born at a naval base courtesy of ‘Nam, but my partents beat it back to the south coast as soon as Dad got out—when I was about five months old. I grew up in Coos County, and it was clear that the county had no economic future to speak of—at my ten-year high school reunion no one with a college degree had settled any closer than Portland, five hours away, and only a couple of the guys had managed to stay in county. The girls had done better, because some had managed to marry older guys who had jobs. This was out of a graduating class of nearly 300 from the largest high school on the coast.
Far Northern California is much better than Portland. If the State of Jefferson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(Pacific_state) had succeeded (and seceded), I might still be on the South Coast today. As it stands, with the near-total collapse of the economy of Coos County, my parents and three sisters have ended up in Ohio, and I am ensconced in Canada, leaving only my brother behind.