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[rivkat]

Stuck on my remix; I'm at the "why do I sign up for these?" stage. Oh well.

Can’t say it better than the Columbia Journalism Review:

D’Souza perpetuates the Cokie Roberts idiocy-that Hawaii is somehow less American than the rest of the U.S. But hey-no problems with Alaska, which came into the Union the same year. Somehow, Sarah Palin always seem to

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[teenygozer]

It's sadly obvious that when people think of Alaskans, their perceptions go to descendants of white settlers like Palin as opposed to the Inuit, but when people think of Hawaii, it's brown-people time all the time (and, okay, maybe some Caucasian hippie-surfer-Liberal types)... and how can these people be truly American! I suspect that even if people knew both territories became states the same year, they still wouldn't internalize the info. How ironic that an Indian-born writer, Dinesh D’Souza, should be the one to step right up and exploit this! His article made me feel sick! I wished I had a Forbes subscription so that I could cancel it.

[jakrar]

Less American? Either it's a state or it's not, and it IS. (Very nice point about Alaska never being accused of being 'less American.' Though I shudder to imagine Sarah Palin as an example of 'Real America.')