If you ever saw the size of Alaska overlapped upon the continental US and then see our population areas you would understand.
2 1/2 times BIGGER than Texas but with a total state population not more than than an average city in the lower 48, more than 3/4ths live in a small area city of Anchorage. Its just like a regular lower 48 city in many ways except for downtown moose and bears, but as soon as you literally and I mean literally get past the city limits you are in a totally different world.
Rural Alaska is very diverse, where I am in Sarah Palins home town (Wasilla)it is almost exclusively pure white, like 98% white the rest native and almost no other minorities, and heavily much like rural redknecks of the south in a way. We shoot first and usually do it right the first time. In Alaska the people are encouraged to be on their own in situations normally calling for law enforcement which could take hours to get to many places at the quickest, I have on one occasion myself detained a robbery suspect. I shot out his truck tire as he was leaving a store.
I’ve known a half dozen people either born/bred Alaskan’s or who went as adults, looking for independence, self-reliance etc. While 6 people isn’t exactly a sample size that proves anything; what you’ve told me about Alaska is exactly what they have told me.
If you plan on living there, you better be independent, self-sufficient, honest, and lazy won’t cut it. In way to many areas of the country we’ve lost that attitude - and we’re paying for it now.