I moved to Seattle in the fall of 2016, a few months before Trump was elected and the sun left for good. My new neighborhood was more than 80 percent white and yet advertised itself as “the center of the universe.” Fremont’s county council proclaimed this status in 1994, when the city was a haven for artists. But Fremont would be gentrified in a matter of years, taken over by offices belonging to Google and Sporcle, and other tech companies with insidiously charming nonsense names. Recreational marijuana was legal in Washington, and we lived a few blocks away from a pot shop owned by a white
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