Today’s is for anyone who thinks the US population is one big amorphous monocultural blob and there are no regional animosities; it comes from TPM Muckraker’s excellent piece on corruption in the Alaska State legislature (the accused even had the brass neck to have had hats made with with ‘Corrupt Bastard’s Caucus’ on them).
The comment drips Californian contempt for Alaskan provincials:
What isn’t ugly about US Alaska, besides the scenery and people and the culture there before it became a US state? Let’s be blunt, the only reason it’s a US state is so we could plunder it for resources. The people who go there are mostly unintelligent and coarse people only made more so by the harsh environment and wild west atmosphere. There are excepts I’m sure, but I have yet to meet one.
Having never been there I can’t claim to be an expert. But if the people I’ve met are representative, it must be awful.
I’ve met several Alaskan oil workers and they were peanut brained, alcoholic, cave men. Some of the stupidest, crudest, and most brutish bipedal primates I’ve ever had the displeasure of meeting.
I had the misfortune of sharing a hot-tub in Hawaii with some Alaskan vacationers once. They began by complaining their stay was going to be too short, complained about Alaska, and didn’t seem to even like each other very much, including their spouses.
They kept asking me about the weather in California, and when I told them it was nice, they really looked displeased by that fact, and complained Alaska weather was terrible. Then they looked at me like it was my fault. Amazing. What kind of moronic inferiority complex causes a person to ask questions they already know and dislike the answer to?
To top it off, both guys were big fat red necks (literally burnt red necks, wife beater tans, one rocking a mullet) and their wives were middle aged desperate housewives or something with too much makeup like blue eye shadow. The wives wanted to sit beside me in the tub and talk about arts and culture, while their husbands became increasingly hostile.
If all Alaskans are like that… no wonder the state is a giant armpit.
They sound like janners to me.
I don’t know if this is all part of some California/Alaska long-running grudge match, or whether it’s just simple snobbery, but it does seem this commenter is inferring an awful lot from a very small sample of Alaskans. I haven’t met any. Was this a typical experience?
