Same goes for Texas.
Not going to happen in the foreseeable future, but ....
You’re onto to something, especially with Texas. All we need is about ten million like-minded people to move there and make it happen... before Obama gets into the White House, preferably.
The problem is as an independent nation there would be no guarantees that Russia wouldn’t attempt to pluck Alaska back, declaring “Seward’s Folly” as an illegitimate nation. There would be no guarantees that the US would defend Alaska as an ally!