Why Miss America, Nina Davuluri, 'Would Never Win Pageants In South Asia'

Last night, Nina Davuluri from Syracuse, Ny, became the first Indian-American Miss America. She took a calculated risk -- pitching herself as the "diverse" contestant, and dancing to a Bollywood song in the talent segment even though contest insiders reportedly warned her the performance would be "too foreign." The risk paid off. While the usual suspects took to Twitter to wail about Davuluri's win, most tweets were peppered in happy exclamation marks. But there was an unfortunate irony to the w...