Not Big County
California's least populous county (1,208 residents) led the state in voter turnout earlier this month, with 86 percent of its eligible voters doing their civic duty. (You'll note I didn't say "going to the polls" -- Alpine County is so sparsely peopled, voting is done by mail.) But what I found interesting was that once again, newspapers could not resist calling it tiny Alpine County. Even before this latest story popped up, Google returned 94 instances of Alpine tinization.
By the way, Alpine County was blue, one of the few inland counties in California to go Kerry's way.
UPDATE: Sacramento Bee story avoids use of "tiny"! Calls it "little Alpine County."
2 comments:
They don't call you Infospigot for nothing.
Gotta figure there were at least a few "tiny Alpine County" references in the Ex! Hell, I remember us joking about it back then.
Question: Is there any other county or municipality that so consistently has a specific adjective applied to it?
Excellent!
From north of the border:
frigid Winnipeg
and
cosmopoliton Vancouver
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