Alaska has NOTHING to do with mainstream America

[Splashdown]

mitchum (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-08-08 06:05 PM
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Alaska has NOTHING to do with mainstream America...
 Advertisements [?]and it's values and concerns.
It is a very isolated, odd, strange, alien, almost...foreign place. How could someone from there understand America and Americans?
This could be an effective tactic.
Make her the other. Because she is.

So is Kenya...

linko

Gotta give it to them. They dig a hole, then look for a bigger shovel.

[Willow]

mitchum (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-08-08 06:05 PM
Original message
Alaska has NOTHING to do with mainstream America...
 Advertisements [?]and it's values and concerns.
It is a very isolated, odd, strange, alien, almost...foreign place. How could someone from there understand America and Americans?
This could be an effective tactic.
Make her the other. Because she is.

So is Kenya...

linko

Gotta give it to them. They dig a hole, then look for a bigger shovel.

 

[bijou]

mitchum (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-08-08 06:05 PM
Original message
DU has NOTHING to do with mainstream America...
and it's values and concerns.
It is a very isolated, odd, strange, alien, almost...foreign place. How could someone from there understand America and Americans?
This could be an effective tactic.
Make them the other. Because they are.

Fixed. 

[franksolich]

You know, one can gain a really good understanding of Sarah Palin, and Alaskans in general, by reading Going to Extremes, by Joel McGinnis.  The book came out in the late 1970s, right about the same time the pipeline up there was starting to flow.

This was the world in which Sarah Palin grew up, and absorbed, making her what she is today.

Alaskans are a singular breed, nothing like them in the lower 48 states--but there's nothing wrong with that.  It's a refreshing change from dull humdrum people from Massachusetts and Illinois, for one.

[thundley4]

I'd probably feel more at home in Alaska than in LA or NYC, but I like small communities.

[MrsSmith]

I'd probably feel more at home in Alaska than in LA or NYC, but I like small communities.

I so second that!! Living where my nearest neighbor is both out of sight and out of hearing would be fantastic!!  Of course, I'd never give up any of my kids, let alone all of them, to be able to afford this, but I still dream of it.  Living in any city, even the little town we're in now, is just too crowded.  My dearest hope is that we will someday have the financial ability to purchase some empty acreage...and move into the very center of it.   

[Splashdown]

of course, the DUmp also has nothing to do with mainstream America, either...

[Vagabond]

I'd probably feel more at home in Alaska than in LA or NYC, but I like small communities.

I so second that!! Living where my nearest neighbor is both out of sight and out of hearing would be fantastic!!  Of course, I'd never give up any of my kids, let alone all of them, to be able to afford this, but I still dream of it.  Living in any city, even the little town we're in now, is just too crowded.  My dearest hope is that we will someday have the financial ability to purchase some empty acreage...and move into the very center of it.   

I'll make that a third.

[DixieBelle]

It just galls them that Palin (and the good people of Alaska) embody that "rugged individualism" that our founding fathers believed was so vital to America's success.

For a bunch of people saying "we need change!!" "ooooobama is the one!!!!" they sure are pissed off about a real change agent coming along to shake things up. Crybabies.

[NHSparky]

Fourth.  I shudder to think of what these clowns would do in their pants if they saw deer, moose, turkeys, and bear wandering through their yards, not to mention what they'd do during the first ice storm that took out their power for 3-4 days...

[thundley4]

I live in central Illinois, and in December of '06 an ice storm knocked our power out for 5 1/2 days. For the first day we used a propane heater, and battery powered lamps.  The second day, I bought a generator and wired it in to the breaker panel.  Not much of a problem after that accept for filling the tank on the generator.

[Chris_]

DU has NOTHING to do with mainstream America...
and it's values and concerns.
It is a very isolated, odd, strange, alien, almost...foreign place. How could someone from there understand America and Americans?
This could be an effective tactic.

What do you know. If you change "Alaska" to "DU" the post is 100% accurate.

[Chris_]

Fourth.  I shudder to think of what these clowns would do in their pants if they saw deer, moose, turkeys, and bear wandering through their yards, not to mention what they'd do during the first ice storm that took out their power for 3-4 days...

Code Brown?

[Chris_]

I'd probably feel more at home in Alaska than in LA or NYC, but I like small communities.

Whereas I would be lost. I have spent time in a lot of places, L.A., Seattle, Pgh, Ft. Worth, Dallas, Richmond, San Diego, Chicago. 

But I have never spent time in a truly small town.

I say that for a reason:  I adore Sarah's plain speaking.  I don't want to say you don't hear it in the big ol' cities.  That isn't fair to the day to day folk who live there.  But, there is a frankness to her speech that is refreshing.  In the cities, we'll say (in a public forum), "we are encountering an excess of outflow."  Small town USA says "we are spending too damn much."  (Of course, California says "we are not taxing enough.")

From a visceral perspective I think her accent (I think it was [derisively] called "Fargo") is truly engaging.  And I think it resonates with more of Middle America than the effete elite (and uneducated and just plain stupid mirror-talkers) lefties realize -- and I have heard that accent all over the country.

I would like to think I would do well in a small community, but I am not sure I could make the adjustment.  But at least I am honest and certainly don't look down at those that do live in them.

But, who knows? I think we have more small town people here than not and you seem to like tolerate me.  Maybe my innate honesty could make up for my citified ways.... ;)

[Odin's Hand]

Hell, a lot of Alaskans are transplanted Okies and Texans who migrated up there with their families for the oil boom. But, folks from Oklahoma and Texas "wouldn't know anything about real America and Americans" after residing in Alaska for a number of years now would they?

[GOBUCKS]

I've visited Alaska, and it felt far more American than the....cosmopolitan hellhole of the East Coast, or Sodomy National Park on the Pacific. Someone should explain to the DUmmies that Alaska is very much a part of the 57 states.

[TheSarge]

Alaska has NOTHING to do with mainstream America...

It's MORE like mainstream America than an inner city community organized by a half black full blown Socialist.

[Airwolf]

Back in 1989 I was sent to Alaska for three weeks during Jan-Feb of that year. It was one of the coldest on record in recent years. For anyone to say Alaska isn't like mainstream America and never to have visited there nor lived their is like saying the moons made of dog biscuts . I have a cousin that has lived there  for years after moving up there from the Midwest. He wouldn't trade it for the world.