Concerning the idiotic claim that the PFD "draws people to Alaska", it would take a DECADE of PFD's to pay the costs of moving to Alaska from elsewhere.  I came here because my job transferred me here.

As for the "wrong kind of people", two points.

(1) In the context of this discussion I understand you're referring to Samoans.  All the Samoans I know work on fishing and fish processing vessels.  They came here for fisheries employment--there are seven major Samoan families who've been fishermen ten times longer than the US has existed.  They go where the fish are.

(2) The "wrong kind of people" started coming to Alaska long before there was a PFD--first from Russia, then from Anglo-Amerikkka.

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