Americans still aren’t fully embracing the nation’s Arctic identity, a new survey finds

Residents of only three states — including Alaska — were more likely than not to agree that the U.S. is an Arctic nation with interests in the region.

In the past three years, the United States has chaired the eight-nation Arctic Council, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit Arctic Alaska, Congress passed legislation that opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil leasing and the news has been filled with stories about extreme warming on land and in the seas of northern Alaska.