CNN Recently Called Alaska the “Most Diverse Place in America.” Today When Bernie Sanders Won...

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

CNN Recently Called Alaska the “Most Diverse Place in America.” Today When Bernie Sanders Won Alaska, CNN Called the State “Largely White”

According to CNN in January, Alaska’s diversity “may surprise folks from the Lower 48 who picture Alaska as a largely homogenous and snowy American extremity. But Alaskans are quite proud of their distinctive demographics.”

“There’s no white part of town. No Aleut village. Or Chinatown.”

“We all live together. Even white people like me. Think how it would be if the whole country had been organized like this. It does people good to break out of their comfort zone and mix with neighbors who are different.”

What a difference a month (and Bernie Sanders) makes!

Last week, Alaska was the “Most Diverse Place in America.”

This week, Bernie Sanders won the Alaska Caucuses, and the state suddenly became “Largely White and Rural.”

http://vetsforbernie.org/2016/03/cnn-bernie-sanders-alaska-diverse-win/

[bravenak]

1. The state is very rural and they were talking about certain neighborhoods.

Fairview and Mountainview, Spenard. Some parts of the city? No.

[malletgirl02]

13. What is wrong with being rural?

There are large parts of the south which Hillary won that are also very rural. Sparta GA for example still looks like it does when "In the Heat of the Night" was filmed there.

[bravenak]

15. You do not understand RURAL until you visit here

Did not say something was wrong. It is what it is.

[malletgirl02]

16. I understand Rural

My dad is from Dublin, GA I spent many summers during my childhood there. I grew up in rural parts of KS and MO.

[bravenak]

19. Rural here means there is no road to your villiage

Got to fly in. Remote and rural. Biggest state, barely any people. You cannot drive to our Capital. You have to fly in. No roads.

[jfern]

2. I hear that Hawaii might become mostly white shortly

[Aerows]

17. It is beginning to look like Hawaii

is full of nothing but white males.

[NWCorona]

3. I have to agree!

I spent some time up there in the military. Very beautiful people and scenery.Should be on everyone's bucket list.


Edit: I'm not agreeing that it's the most diverse place in America. That's actually where I live and a proven fact BTW. Just that it's a very diverse place.

[roguevalley]

29. they teach to 178 languages in the Anchorage school district last I read

[lunamagica]

4. Alaska elected Sara Palin TWICE

[roguevalley]

30. she actually wasn't completely insane before McCain. thanks for you concern. and she's from Idaho.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Somehow I am not surprised at the change.

They'll gyrate any direction possible to diminish Senator Sander's win.

They have their orders, after all.

[amborin]

6. KNR

[Ed Suspicious]

7. I heard recently that you can hear over 100 different languages in Anchorage.

http://www.alaskajournal.com/business-and-finance/2015-06-17/anchorage-marks-hundred-years-hundred-languages#.VvdHpWErL0o

[Jenny_92808]

8. It is disgusting what the hill-ites and other

evils are doing! It is so obvious and wrong!

[KingFlorez]

9. For shame. Tell the truth about the article.

The article in question talks about one area, not the entire state http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/12/us/most-diverse-place-in-america/index.html?sr=tw061215akmostdiverse11pStoryGallPhoto

According to the Census, Alaska is 66% White, which isn't as white as some other states Sanders has carried but it is nonetheless majority white.

[JonLeibowitz]

10. America is 72% White (including hispanics) and 64% Non-Hispanic White.

Is America a diverse country? Does Alaska reflect the non-whiteness of the USA?

[KingFlorez]

32. The census numbers speak for themselves

The bottom line is that Alaska is hardly evidence of Sanders winning a more diverse environment than Clinton did.

[roguevalley]

31. the rest of AK is predominately native. your point?

[KingFlorez]

33. I was disputing the point of the article

The OP and the article made out as if Alaska is the most diverse state in the union and that simply is not true. The actual CNN article was about one area of Alaska, not the whole state.

[Lizzie Poppet]

11. Alaska is 66.7% white. That's only 3% higher than the national average.

There are a very low percentage of blacks, though...and to some (particularly bullshit "journalists " with an agenda), only blacks seem to count as "minorities." Maybe Latinos.

Alaska, however is over 14% Native American and 5.5% Asian. Who apparently don't count...

[Aerows]

18. Wait for it -

We are going to hear that Hawaii is full of nothing but white males.

[Lizzie Poppet]

21. Ha! Yeah...if only it were someplace with diversity!

[jfern]

23. Alaska is only 61.9% non Hispanic white compared to 62.1% nationwide

Bernie just got 82% of the vote in a state that is less non Hispanic white than nationwide.

And word is that he'll be winning the least white state in the country, Hawaii.

[Lizzie Poppet]

24. Yeah, categorizing Hispanic voters has always been tricky.

Fortunately, I think we agree that the point is the same: he's doing well in diverse states. People are mistakenly lumping all POC into a big "minority" catch-all category, when it's obvious there are very different voting patterns between minority demographic groups. Saying "Bernie fails with minorities" is really saying "Bernie fails with blacks." And even that's not entirely true. A lot of African Americans have voted for him, and he does very well with young black voters.

[Bluenorthwest]

26. They did the same in OK, which has the largest Native population in the contigous 50 States

DU search OK 'homogeneous' and you find it was repeated over and over again. OK is less lily white than the US, than Texas, than Illinois. They also say OK is 'sparsely populated and homogeneous' when OK is just about in the middle range of populations. Not all that sparse, not all that white. But the Native Americans do not count.

[Lizzie Poppet]

27. Apparently #RL(don't)M.

[PearliePoo2]

12. I have heard that Alaska has changed.

There is pre-pipeline and post-pipeline.
The Alaska prior the the huge influx of pipeline workers was a different place.
Red-neck, bible thumping ReThugs coming from Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas changed everything. (and not for the better) This true?

[senseandsensibility]

14. Yes, it's very diverse.

[Marr]

20. Confront them on this, and they'll say they were referring to the snow. /nt

[Aerows]

22. Damnit, Marr

You almost made me take out another keyboard!

[Cheese Sandwich]

25. CNN caught red handed spinning the news to fit the official bias

[Octafish]

28. Instant sea change shows corrupt nature of Corporate McPravda.

"Guy's only competitive in non-diverse/diverse states..."

It's like a switch going on/off at corporate command.

[Land Shark]

34. Trending today #berniemademewhite I