also part of the problem with carving things up as you mentioned is the issue around forming states that actually have enough of a population to be considered legitimate. alaska's got 700000 and it's considered to be the baseline, but combining yukon, nt and nunavut doesnt even come close. i think these areas are probably better to stay as territories, given the fact that they are probably pretty uninhabitable for anything but resources development anyways.  it will be easy to convince people to move north to saskatchewan or british columbia, less so to the northern coast on anything but a "alaska north slope rotation" situation.
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