So what else is new?  Nothing, only the degree.  The MatSu was invaded by the spillover from the Pipeline/Oil field boom of the 1970s.  Most of the farmers(Old Depression Socialists)cashed out the land and retired to the Lower 48/Hawaii.  The real estate barons carved up the farms into 1 acre plots for new occupants to "live off the land".  The Texans/Okies flush with oil cash created anti-government enclaves where "free market" criminals roamed the land with virtually no law enforcement.  Gangs of adults and youths burglarized at will with little to impede them in "off the grid" houses hidden in woods from criminal activity.  The entire borough has been a haven for criminals ever since.  Add in anti-government Republican government, no taxes, fundamentalist christian religion, no law, for the pure petri dish of anarchy masked as CONservative Nirvana.  No end in sight in a state in the throes of imploding from the massive looting by the Oil Monopoly.