The east coast is where most of the US population lives. We often make generalizations about our infrastructure even though they don’t hold for Alaska.
Wow what a snooty and rude response. Also, if California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida are geographically equivalent to Alaska in your book, you need to get out more.
This is not true. "In 2010, the population of the states which have shoreline on the East Coast was estimated at 112,642,503 (36% of the country's total population). "