A bit about the Alaska Independence Party, which is not "secessionist" per se.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Independence_PartyIt is also the 3rd-party option for folks who feel the Repubs are getting too anti-state's right. In the below case Joe Vogler offered the ticket to Hickel because Dems used our (then) open primary to put a liberal on the Rep. ticket. As you can see, you don't have to be a secessionist to be an independent.
In 1990, Walter Joseph Hickel, a former Republican, won the election for governor as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, along with Jack Coghill as his running mate. This was the only time since Alaska joined the union that a third-party candidate has been elected governor. However, Hickel never agreed with the party's call for a vote on secession, leading to demands from party diehards that he be recalled. He rejoined the Republican Party in 1994, with eight months remaining in his term.
If Hickel's name is familiar, he was Sec of Int. under Nixon and was fired for criticising him over the Vietnam war and treatment of protestors.
Alaska politics is complex.