Well, it looks like both of your choices are "very" lower 48 New Yorkers.  
Your idea that Alaska is the "laughing stock" of America means you may have missed the POTUS say Alaska is the most beautiful and unique state he has visited.  He praised the villiages and their people, saw our climate change problem up close.
Your "isolationism" is 1950's talk.  It is a new technological day out there.