Most Teabaggers per capita found in Alaska. Well shit!

Courtesy of the Washington Post:  

Maybe it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Alaska, a state known for its independent streak, is a hotbed for tea partiers. It’s home to the most members per capita, according to data from a new report. 

The states with the largest populations were, of course, home to the most in absolute terms, with the South leading the nation by region. The data was part of a larger report on the status of the movement produced by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, a liberal group based in Kansas City, Mo. (Sources for the report’s data included political contributions and the Web sites of several tea party organizations.) 

The movement lays claim to a small slice of the nation, with its more than 450,000 members accounting for a 0.14 percent share of the population. The South is far and away home to the most tea party members, with nearly 190,000. Nearly 110,000 live in the West, and nearly 93,000 live in the Midwest. Slightly more than 64,000 live in the Northeast. 

In Alaska, tea partiers account for 3.57 of every 1,000 residents. 

Sometimes I just hate my life.

This is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful states in the country, with a population of some of the dumbest people on the planet.

I often get asked why we don't get more progressives in office, or why we don't challenge Mark Begich with a more liberal primary candidate, and my answer to this is, "Boy you sure aren't from Alaska are you?"

We have people up here that are so libertarian that they throw a fit when their town installs a new speed limit sign, or put in stoplights at a dangerous intersection.

These are the people who are ether members, or supporters of the AIP, but since that is not nationally recognized feel they might as well jump on the Tea Party bandwagon as well.

Though Sarah Palin has proven to be a national embarrassment to our state, her politics were right in line with how a lot of people, especially those in non-native rural communities, think.

And of course the funny thing is that Alaska would be a virtual wasteland without the federal money that Ted Stevens, Don Young, and the Murkowski's have brought up here for decades.

Sure we have oil, but without the roads, airports, and infrastructure provided by the federal government we would probably still be trying to find it, or if found, trying to figure out how to process it and get it out of here.

But none of that means anything to the Alaska AIP/Teabaggers, as far as they are concerned the regulations imposed on them by the Feds are simply there to ruin their fun, and the money sent up here by the boatload to support the state is of no use to anybody who considers themselves a REAL Alaskan.

Of course the sad fact is that most of those who consider themselves members of the Tea Party are not Alaska natives, ie "real" Alaskans, nor are they people who have been here since before the oil boom. They are Southerners who came up here when the smell of crude hit the air, and brought their fundamentalist religions and conservative politics with them.

I would be willing to bet that of this 3.57 percent who identity as members of the Tea Party, that the vast majority of them have not been up here longer than 30 years. You know before the red rash of conservatism spread across our political landscape.