Gawker is experiencing confusion today deploying stale regional stereotypes. In its wrap-up of “hot” Congressional freshmen, the site names Washington’s Congressional Representative Jamie Herrera (R-3):
So Hererra is from duck-infested Oregon (because the University of Oregon’s mascots are ducks! And there are forests in that state so they must be packed with… never mind.) If only that photo had some sort of clue—a signal visible to the Statue-of-Liberty climbing, bagel-gobbling, Broadway-show-hopping… New Yorkers—that she’s not from Oregon:
Thanks to Barry for the tip.
If we could only send Clark County to Oregon.
On behalf of everyone who once believed Gawker’s fact-checking to be the model of rigor, I thank you.
What, you didn’t know that New Yorkers think everything west of the Mississippi is all the same? Sheesh. (And by the way, they’re not real sure about some of the states east of the Mississippi either.)
I gotta go with Kristi Noem, on the larger topic of hotness. Brunette girls with light eyes = swoon.
I hear DC is built on swamps, so they must be filled with swamp critters and the hillbillys that live off ’em, y’all.
haha
Now it’s changed to this:
“Jaime Herrera Beutler’s election was the most exciting news for Washington state since Kurt Cobain killed himself.”
Classy Gawker, Really classy.
@1 can we send Cowlitz and Lewis too?
the stop-HIV twins are hotter.
I think everything that drains into the Columbia River should be Oregon anyway. At the very least, Clark, Cowlitz, Wakhiakum, Pacific, and the southern half of Lewis (excluding the parts that drain into the Chehalis River) qualify.
#10 On the assumption that you’re serious, that would be over half of Washington, most of Idaho, and parts of Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and Canada.
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She’s definitely hotter than the old lady on the state seal.
So is it Jamie or Jaime?
11–I’m just talking about the parts in Washington that are in the Columbia River basin–basically Eastern Washington and the areas close to Portland. I don’t actually support dividing the state but I think that would make more sense than a pure split across the mountains if it ever happened.
#15 one thing I noticed in that map is that the border between Idaho and Montana is not a river, as I always assumed, it’s the border of river basins. Whether it’s just based on some ridge that happens to divide the basins or was actually set with the basins in mind, I’m not sure, but I thought that was interesting.
New Yorkers…the most provincial people in the world.
@16 I believe it’s the continental divide, which is indeed “some rigde.”