[Reno89519]

Now I don’t and haven’t ever watched this in probably 40 years, but are they not forgetting their roots? This is a sex-based, appearance-based event and has nothing without it.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

For the first several decades, the Miss America contest featured wholesome girl-next-door types. It slowly morphed over the years, picking up speed after the 1950s to become more prurient. The current crop of contestants obviously have had a lot of "work" done at the the plastic surgeon's clinic. It takes some serious coin to become a Miss America contestant.