http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2011/09/10/nathan-deal-asks-for-legislation-to-make-the-state-a-player-in-mass-transit/

A Republican governor in Georgia asking for a transit plan for metro Atlanta has to mean something?

“In 2009, Portland had the fifth-highest percentage of white residents among the 40 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. A 2007 survey of the 40 largest cities in the U.S. concluded that Portland’s urban core is the “whitest big city in the nation”.[124] The Pacific Northwest as a whole has been called “one of the last Caucasian bastions of the United States”.[according to whom?][125] While Portland’s diversity was historically comparable to metro Seattle and Salt Lake City, those areas grew more diverse in the late 1990s and 2000s. Portland not only remains white, but migration to Portland is disproportionately white, at least partly because Portland is attractive to young college-educated Americans, a group which is overwhelmingly white.”