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I've long been answering that question for people, in two different senses.
In one sense, my answer would be ideally that Alaska becomes it's own independent country — I seriously pissed off my 4th grade teacher for writing a "social studies" report in support of the Alaska Independence Party — and failing that, that Russia takes us back.
In the other sense, I've given my list before, starting, in order of preference, with Liechtenstein, then Monaco, and ending with Eswatini. And as always, for why I haven't already moved to one of those places, it's because none of them will take be; as a schizophrenic welfare parasite, no country on Earth will let me legally immigrate, and so I'm stuck here in the US whether I like it or not.
Isn’t Alaskan independence relatively mainstream and normal?
Depends on what you mean by "relatively mainstream." In that the AIP exists, has about 2% of the state's population as memebers, and is one of the few third parties to have ever (briefly) controlled a state governor's seat, sure (though it hasn't really been the same since Vogler was murdered).
But there's still quite a lot of opposition; Mrs. Johnson's was on the basis that "secession is secession," that any and all attempts to leave the US are, morally speaking, the same thing, and thus support for Alaskan Independence is also necessarily equal support for the Confederacy, and thus slavery, and therefore an unacceptable opinion for anyone to hold in her classroom.
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