Timber, oil, mining, tourism, fishing, etc. are all federally subsidized. The land on which many of these activities occur is owned by the people of the United States. So, they'r e making all that money cutting your trees, hunting your moose, drilling your oil, etc.

Sure, Alaskans (not all of them) think those resources belong to them because they're tough and rugged enough to tramp around the frozen tundra, bounce around on the waves, whatever, to extract the bounty and sell it to the rest of us. They forget we bought Alaska from the Russians in the first place, then paid people to settle there in the 1940s and 1950s.

I guess I can see why they hate the federal government. Without it, there would be no Alaska, no oil pipeline, no fishing industry, no tourism, no nothing. They'd all be back in Arkansas, making moonshine. Who wouldn't resent a government that tore you away from poverty and ignorance and made you live in a recreational paradise?