Hey, Guest Arkie, lay off us provincial types. I don't think the not-so-isolated status of Alaska had much, if anything, to do with who Sarah Palin is, and she had lots of experience of other states/cities while running around pretending to get an education. I've lived most of my life in a rural setting in a province with a small population, and I am no Sarah Palin.

I hate lofty dismissals of rural people that paint us as dumb regressive hicks when it is bloody well not true.