Top 10 Miss Amerika Contestants, RWers

[Dinger]

Couldn't find the list, but I saw the show at the beginning, and here are the winners that I can remember:

D.C.
Arkansas
Alabama
Oklahoma
Texas
Florida
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Virginia
10= ? South Carolina (on edit)

I didn't watch after that. When I did a search on Google, there were several results that had "new" and "Wholesone" included. Maybe they were worried about comments someone from New York, Massacussetts, Maine, etc. might say. The host made a big deal about none of the first few 10 being west of the Mississippi, when it was obvious he meant Mason-Dixon Line. What do you think? And no, I didn't watch after that.

[GrumpyGreg]

1. Pennsylvania? Wow!

Where's Mississippi?

[jobycom]

2. Didn't know they still had that stuff.

Do they still bother televising, or do they just sell tickets to parents of contestants and dirty old men who couldn't become judges?

[OKNancy]

3. They didn't say much at all actually

It was an old-fashioned kind of pageant. The winner is a nice girl and rather artsy.
I've never heard her express much about politics at all.

[jillan]

12. It's Tinkerbell!

[hwmnbn]

26. bwahahaha......good one.......

:rofl: :rofl:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Please. These women could spend all that money

It takes to enter all these pageants and go to school, or buy a house, or feed hungry children.

ick! imho

[OKNancy]

10. Or perhaps this is a way to make money

for school because your dad lost his job and it pays big scholarship money.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

13. I doubt it.

I grew up with a few of these girls (well, same type). From the time they were 6 or so, their parents put themselves in hock buying dresses and paying entry fees and the costs of getting to the pageants. You don't just decide one day to enter Miss Amerika on a whim... you have to go through YEARS of smaller pageants to get that far... and it costs LOTS of money.

Not to mention the hours and hours spent learning how to "look good" and "walk correctly" that could be better spent learning something useful.

Maybe I'm just biased because all the girls I knew that were into this were so vacuous and obsessed with their appearance that I couldn't stand being around them. :shrug:

[OKNancy]

15. I know the winner

She is a nice girl and she has used the money to go to school. Her parents are not well off. I tried to be subtle about my relationship, but I just don't want any DUer saying bad things about her.
She has been taking ballet at my school since she was 8 and one of my employees went with her to Las Vegas as her coach. All the parents at my school pitched in to help pay the teachers way. It was a thrilling night for all of us. I sure don't want my fellow Democrats to be too judgmental.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

20. How many pageants did she have to go through to get there?

I'm wondering, now that I'm thinking off those girls I knew, and how most of them never got farther than regional. Maybe she's made of tougher stuff. :)

[OKNancy]

24. Several

Fortunately she won 2nd in several and it paid enough scholarship and she got to enter it again.
Normally I don't like this type of thing, but it has all been an eye-opener to me.
Raised my consciousness, as we used to say back in the 60's

[Viva_La_Revolution]

29. I'm glad she's getting something good out of it.

Sounds like she's the exception to the rule; however, it doesn't change my opinion about the pageants in general. Fluff and nonsense, usually.

[Dinger]

22. I'm Guilty

I feel about 1 inch high after reading your post. Sorry : (

[OKNancy]

25. You have a Wes Clark picture

so you are fine with me. :hi:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

27. nobody's perfect

LOL

You're OK with me Dinger, I've seen your smarts in other posts.

[Dinger]

28. Thanks

:) You're a class act.

[Misskittycat]

5. The host is Southern and this is on CMT, so it's not a surprise that

he's casually mentioning all the Southerners. Don't read too much into it; he's a proud Nashville native.

[Dinger]

7. He Called Them Easterners

Curious, isn't it? Was he embarrassed?

[LizW]

6. Top 10 is almost always all southerners

#10 is probably Mississippi or Tennessee or South Carolina.

Doesn't necessarily mean they are right-wingers, though. I think I heard that Diedra Downs was not a big Bush fan.

[Dinger]

8. It Was South Carolina, I'll Edit. Thanks

[mtnsnake]

17. Thats because with the way they talk they knock me out when I’m down there

But the east coast girls are hip, ya know.

And the mid-west farmer's daughters.....

[cynatnite]

9. 'Why did you wear those horrid glasses?'

Berry said she looked much different in sixth grade: "I had big huge glasses, frizzy hair and I was about 5-foot-8. And I remember being in music class and a girl came up to me and said, 'Why did you have that picture taken with those horrid glasses?'"

She said she was "heartbroken" by the comment, but that it ultimately helped her "become the woman that I am by accepting the person that I am."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060122/ap_on_en_tv/miss_america

And this is our new Miss America :puke:

[OKNancy]

11. Yes it is, I posted a picture of her above

Don't judge people you don't know : always a good thing to remember.

[Tanuki]

14. She obviously got rid of the glasses and straightened her hair,

so I'm not sure what her point was regarding self-acceptance.

[Catch22Dem]

19. Speaking with NO experience here, but..

I imagine it takes a great deal of self confidence to do beauty pagents. :shrug: Maybe that's what she meant.

[cynatnite]

30. Could be...

but I find beauty pageants stupid, anyway.

[RoyGBiv]

16. On what are you basing this?

Even if you're trying to make some sort of prejudicial comment about people from certain states, I still don't see it. I mean, there's DC and Pennsylvania in there.

Now, they may well be RW-ers, but I'm not seeing where you're arriving at that conclusion here.

[Catch22Dem]

18. RWers how???

Because they're from red states? :shrug:

[Dinger]

21. O.K., I Guess That Wasn't Fair, But I Sure Would

have like to seen a more geographically balanced group, and yeah, I thought of them as red-staters, and I apologize for my rush to judgement.

[Catch22Dem]

23. No prob...

A Clarkie gets a LOT of leverage w/ me. ;)

I assumed that's what you meant, and I thought it was weird there wasn't a single top 10 contestant from west of the rockies.

[cornermouse]

31. Arkansas, Oklahoma, and possibly Pennsylvania are the anomalies.

The rest are the usual suspects.