I don't think the Children of Ham stuff made it into the show— they're supposed to be black people, right? In the show it seems like Commanders are okay with the idea of having black handmaids / black children, and race doesn't seem to factor into their ideology.

Gilead consists of almost the entire continental US, not Massachusetts and Alaska. The line about the US capital being in Anchorage and there being only two stars left on the flag is talking about a rump democratic US (Alaska and Hawaii?) that isn't in the book, not Gilead. You can tell because of the sequence where…