The Rio Grande is the only place on earth where the first world borders directly on the third world. But our other southern border is interesting too.

Our other southern border is the only place on earth where you go directly from America into Europe.

No, I did make a typo there. When you cross our NORTHERN border into Canada, the states you leave behind, New England and the Northwest, are totally European. There is absolutely nothing American about Canadian attitudes. When you go into Canada going north you are going from one part of Europe into another.

But exactly the same thing is true of the Northwest and New England. Accepted attitudes in Canada are exactly the same as accepted attitudes in Britain and France. But the same thing is true of New England and the Northwest. A New Englander, a Canadian and a Frenchman could sit down and talk and, from what they say, you couldn’t tell who was from where.

Alaska votes conservative Republican. You would play hell finding any other state on the Canadian border which is conservative Republican. As I said below in “One America, Two Europes” there is absolutely no difference in accepted opinion in our “red states” and accepted opinion in Europe, including Canada.

Alaska is American in the extreme. It repudiates the environmentalism which has replaced socialism as the accepted attitudes of Canadians and Frenchmen. Alaska has the highest percentage of members of the National Rifle Association of any state in the Union.

I have no more personal identification with Washington State or New England than I do with Paris, France. And they have less personal identification with me than they do with any non-American anywhere. To them I have nothing to do with “America.” They say loyalty to America has nothing to do with loyalty to Southerners or other Americans.

They say they are loyal not to a particular people but the PRINCIPLES of America. And every principle they are talking about is the total European loyalty to Political Correctness.

No, I said that America’s SOUTHERN border is the only place where America is side by side with Europe. In order to drive to the “lower forty-eight” an Alaskan must cross his SOUTHERN border into Canada.

At that southern border, many Alaskans have been detained because they have Hate Literature in their cars. In Canada as in the rest of Europe, you can be jailed for having Politically Incorrect literature in your car.

As in Europe, you can be jailed for not telling the Thought Police at the border that you have illegal literature in your car. As in Europe, the banned literature is burned and you are billed for the cost of destroying it.

As in the rest of Europe, any weapon you have in your car will be immediately confiscated without compensation. Once again, if you do not tell the Thought Police about the weapon in your car, you are headed straight for prison.

As in the rest of Europe, they have every right to search your vehicle without the slightest authorization from anybody.

So America has two southern borders, both unique in the world. The Rio Grande is the only place on earth where the third world lies directly beside the first world. America’s other southern border is the only place on earth where Europe lies directly beside America.