WI: Finnish Policemen's Union

Most of the Finns would have moved elsewhere in time. The Tanana Valley might be like Finland, but if you had nicer places to live (like, say, Anchorage to start), you'd move there. A lot of those Finns would have had relatives in other spots of Finnish immigration in the US, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and parts of northern Minnesota being the main one, but there were also a lot of Finns in places like rural Massachusetts too. No need to stick around in Alaska if your cousin/nephew/whatever will help you out in a place closer to civilisation. Not to mention the potential of immigration to Canada, since parts of Ontario had a large Finnish population as well.

The Alaska Finns would leave their mark on the area and there'd be plenty of them there to this day, but the majority would have migrated elsewhere in the US and Canada.
 
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