Alaska is a place both physically and psychically removed from the rest of America, which folks there refer to as "Outside."
Note the capital "O," as it appears in newspapers, which reflects both standardization and a proud embrace of the state's apartness.
Isolation aside, Alaska has changed its elections in way that may be a model for the rest of the country as the U.S. sinks ever lower into a slough of political nihilism and dysfunction.
