Very odd article. Would have been helpful to include that Gresham is:
- OR's 4th largest city
- Shares a boarder with Portland
- 38% communities of color
- Only 21% of voters are registered Republicans
- Clinton won the city by 12-points in 2016 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/portland-political-chasm-protests-unrest.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

It's a small difference, but Gresham is even more dense than Portland:

Gresham: 110,165 pop / 23.64 sq miles = 4,660 per sq mile
Portland: 652,575 pop / 145 sq miles = 4,5001 per sq mile

Also says that "Portland and its surrounding area" make up 60% of the states population. No idea where this comes from. Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties are 43% of state's population. Adding Yamhill and Columbia only brings it up to 47%.

Title of the article is a "Chasm Grows Between Portland the the Rest of the State."

According to the NYT the "rest of the state" is limited to Gresham--a city that boarders PDX, is racially diverse, Democratic and voted solidly Clinton--and Sandy, the next town over.

Good grief

One more. The article says that Clinton won 50% of vote in Clackamas County defeating Trump by 7-points.

Nope. The Clackamas County was:

Clinton: 47.7%
Trump: 41.3%
Difference: 6.4

Forgive the rounding difference, but Clinton did not get 50%.