A 23-year-old Wisconsinite beauty queen Laura Kaeppeler from Kenosha won the Miss America 2012 title in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Miss Oklahoma Betty Thompson came in second, while Miss New York Kaitlyn Monte placed third.
All the 50 states plus District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands participated in the pageant. The finals night contest began with the selection of Top 15 which include Laura while the other 14 are as follows: Miss South Carolina Bree Boyce, Miss Louisiana Hope Anderson, Miss California Noelle Freeman, Miss North Carolina Hailey Best, Miss Tennessee Erin Hatley, Miss Alabama Courtney Porter, Miss Arizona Jennifer Sedler, Miss Illionois Hannah Smith, Miss Virginia Elizabeth Crot, Miss Texas Kendall Morris, Miss Iowa Jessica Pray, Miss New York Kaitlin Monte, Miss Florida Kristina Janolo. Miss Oklahoma Betty Thompson was chosen by the fans online and automatically became a finalist.
The Miss America winner is not expected to compete internationally. It's rival pageant Miss USA is the one sending the American delegate to Miss Universe. Miss America and Miss USA have both different approaching in selecting its winners but comparison between the two is sometimes inevitable. Miss America styles itself as a scholarship program and well in fact, Miss USA was created because of the refusal of Miss America 1951 Yolande Betbeze to pose in swimsuit publicly. Rivalry between the two pageants had been a fodder for American pageant fans. Well in fact the reigning Miss USA Alyssa Campanella's tweet "Congrats to Miss Wisconsin, now Miss America. Touching we both won on the same exact stage and took our 1st walk on the same runway! :-)" was misconstrued by the public as a form of sarcasm.
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