I am a 35 year old life long Alaskan. I have seen the shift over the years as more and more "diversity" has grown anchorage. It's a little disheartening how we have changed. You will always have the staunch right and the indignant liberals on the far sides of the spectrum. But it seems like now if you are a conservative and pride yourself on working hard and have harnessed the bennifits of capitalism for your families then you are automatically oil scum raping our resources. Sad to say we have become a welfare state, with our ten person families moving in and getting "their" PFD checks. What happened to an Alaskan just being an Alaskan, hard working and not for big government. We are a resource state, always will be. I wish we would align our stance so that we are not such a safe haven for those non-contributing members that seem to keep coming in droves. I don't care what hate comments I will probably get, I miss the Alaska I grew up with.