[alexander_busek]

"I never could have imagined in a million years that I would be Miss America, let alone that I would be Miss Alaska,"

You are all missing the point. There is a logic to that statement, if you would just think about it for a while.

The reverse ("... never dreamed that I would be Miss Alaska, let alone Miss America...") implies merely that she hadn't imagined being talented enough to become Miss Alaska - let along talented enough to beat out all the other 49 states.

Her statement, however, has a different implication: She is implying that becoming Miss Alaska was somehow less plausible or more ridiculous than becoming Miss America - not because the competition is harder, but because becoming Miss Alaska - for her - is somehow more incredible than becoming, say, Miss Hawaii. So she is making a statement about the STATE whose candidate she has become.

And I think that it is a very understandable viewpoint. No one would bat an eye at a semi-Asian woman being elected Miss Hawaii - where Caucasians are in the minority.

Regards,

[Ezekiel]

Good thinking!!!

Thanks much for flipping that over with an alternate yet perfectly logical perspective.

Well, so much for an.. airtight case for a “blonde”. :)

[Mr. Jeeves]

No one would bat an eye at a semi-Asian woman being elected Miss Hawaii - where Caucasians are in the minority.

Well, no one should bat an eye at a semi-Asian woman being elected Miss Alaska, either - because native Alaskans originated from the exact same part of the world Koreans come from. :)

[ckilmer]

And I think that it is a very understandable viewpoint. No one would bat an eye at a semi-Asian woman being elected Miss Hawaii - where Caucasians are in the minority.

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True, white alaskans are in the majority there but they only represent 65% of the population. Not like some midwestern states that regularly elect miss usa who are non white —and usually black—but 90% of their population is white.