POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES
Could be, but I believe there is another explanation.
Alaska is a place heavily peopled with militia-types, backwoods throwbacks, and Aryan-nation types, much like Idaho.
Sarah Palin fits the profile of an ideal candidate there, utterly uninformed about the world at large yet ready to offer an opinion on any of it, being blithely unaware of how parochial her every sentence is. Such places very much want parochialism, male or female.
Her having Russia as “a neighbor,” with its assumption of knowing something about world affairs, pretty much sums up the situation.
Her equivalent as a male is more far common, places like Texas, Mississippi, or Oklahoma growing them almost like a toxic crop.
