Oregon demographics

"In Clackamas County, writer MJ Cody, a white Estacada native, says people are drawn to its rural-tinged suburbia. The county doesn't have any large ethnic enclave to draw Asians, Latinos or African Americans, she says.
Another factor that makes it hard to get minorities to work and live in Clackamas County is the lack of public transportation -- something that will change when the light-rail line along Interstate 205 opens, says Nancy Drury, the county's employee services director. She expects more apartments and affordable homes to be built near light rail, which also will help diversify the population.
Twenty years ago, the county had two African American employees. Now it has 31, along with 74 Latinos and 58 other minorities out of 1,840 workers, Drury says.
When Stephen Ying immigrated to Clackamas County from Hong Kong at age 16, he and his brother doubled the Chinese American enrollment at Milwaukie's Rex Putnam High School. "I ran into a lot of discrimination," he remembers.
Thirty-five years later, Putnam High is still 80 percent white. Oregon City High, the county's largest with 2,000 students, is 85 percent white."