From a Former Alaskan
Forgive me as I toss one more post on the heap of Sarah Palin musings. (I’m excited to read Philip Gourevitch’s piece in the New Yorker about her blazing emergence from the murk of Alaskan politics. Please comment if you’ve read it!) I’m trying to form a story idea about Alaskan women in politics, since there’s a chance I’ll be in Alaska around election time.
I think this piece on CNN yesterday makes a good attempt to depict the range of Alaskan women.
The main point is clear – there’s not just one type of woman up there. There’s not just one type of anyone up there. Politics in Alaska are just as polarized as in the rest of the nation. There are conservationists vs. contractors. Commercial fisherman vs. charter fishermen. Subsistence hunters vs. aerial wolf shooters. And on and on.