Reply #83: I hate to quibble, but not all red states are alike.

[Blue_In_AK]

I don't think anyone would argue against Alaska being a Republican state, but this is a not a teabagger haven, as Lisa Murkowski's write-in victory proves, nor are we a fundie mecca, since we are regularly at the very bottom of those "most religious states" statistics. We still have legal abortions, no death penalty, essentially legal pot, our economy is in good shape, and our unemployment is lower than most of the rest of the country. We have that socialist Alaska Permanent Fund. We have state-sponsored insurance for the hard-to-insure, inexpensive housing for seniors, Denali Kid Care to help with medical care for low-income kids. Anchorage is very minority-friendly, with a 50-50 school district where 97 languages are spoken. We have taken in a big contingent of Hmong and Somalian refugees. This is just a friendly place.

In my opinion, these kinds of red-state, blue-state generalizations are a crock. There are good progressive people in every state of the union, and there are conservative assholes everywhere, too.

I'm just kind of tired of it.



Oh, and one more thing -- the only state in the union where Sarah Palin is more unpopular than she is in Alaska is Massachusetts. !!