In the book Sarah from Alaska, the two reporters who wrote the book
report that Sarah Palin's father, Chuck Heath, claims Sarah left college
in Hawaii after one semester because the Asians freaked her out:

"Palin, though notoriously ill-traveled outside the United States,
did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in
Hawaii. She and a friend who went with her lasted only one semester.
"Hawaii was a little too perfect," Palin writes. "Perpetual sunshine
isn't necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen-year-old
Alaska girls." Perhaps not. But Palin's father, Chuck Heath, gave a
different account to Conroy and Walshe. According to him, the presence
of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: "They
were a minority type thing and it wasn't glamorous, so she came home."
In any case, Palin reports that she much preferred her last stop, the
University of Idaho, "because it was much like Alaska yet still 'Outside.' "

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Yep, Sarah Palin, a GOP frontrunner and SW Tom's political salvation lady.