Alternate State deliberately separates your default state and selections from your Alternate State and selections.
It is used to compare values, when you have 2 sets of Listboxes, Current Selection boxes and Charts - one set belongs to Alternate State 1 and other to Alternate State 2, and the 1st shows e.g Sales for America, 2014 and Clothes and the other Sales for Europe, 2014 and Shoes. So you want that the 2 selection boxes show the different selections, not all mixed up.
(Properties, General, Alternate State)
If you want all selections in the same selection box, than why you need alternate state?
As long as you assign the current slecetion box to an Alternate state, it will show the selections from objects belonging to the same Alternate state.