http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37204837
Any real surprises here?
Any real surprises here?
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Not really, these comments are in line with a lot of what he has said before. -
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There's a reason that he was one of the first Republican politicians to jump on the Trump Train.
The amount of demented right-wingers in Maine and New Hampshire always surprises me. It seems counter-intuitive given how I think of New England generally.Comment
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Maine is almost it's own entity separate from the rest of New England, right?Comment
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The only thing I know about Maine, apart from lobster, is that they have a population descended from people who came from the Azores.
*edit: a section of their population.Comment
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Especially the further north you go. Their governor is and always has been a whackjob. Angus King before him was a relatively decent sort.Incandenza wrote: Maine is almost it's own entity separate from the rest of New England, right?
It probably galls LePage every day that Maine has the either largest, or second largest behind Minnesota, group of Somalian immigrants in the USA.Comment
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Isn't half of maine like the rest of new England, and the other half basically Hillbilly wilderness where people kill their own food.Comment
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The only thing I ever knew about Maine as a kid is it's where the brother and sister found the magic rings in "Shazzan"Comment
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I know that They have a lot of moose.Comment
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A lot of Stephen King's books are based there. And it is home to Cabot Cove, the town where Jessica Fletcher turning up at a dinner party ensures that at least one person won't live to see the morning.Comment
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The concept of the "rest of New England" is under increasing strain as its constituent states diverge. Vermont, for example, is the land of Bernie Sanders and Ben & Jerry's, while its "Live Free or Die" neighbour New Hampshire is virulently conservative, largely due to the influence of self-described "tax exiles" from Massachusetts. And while Massachusetts is majority progressive, Connecticut politics reflects the fact that Greenwich is the epicentre of the US hedge fund industry.Isn't half of maine like the rest of new England, and the other half basically Hillbilly wilderness where people kill their own food.
But yeah, Maine is weird, and the closest analogue to Alaska (without the oil) that we have in the East.
Oh, and the "Cabot Cove" of Murder She Wrote is Mendocino, California, an entire continent away from Maine.Comment
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Stephen King, George Bush, John Ford and Phoebe the Dog were born in Maine.
Otherwise it's Prince Edward Island... but bigger.Comment
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Heh, John ford grew up in an irish speaking household. America is quite an exotic place isn't it?Comment
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That must be true of a lot of states if you're prepared to go back far enough. A huge proportion of the eighteenth and nineteenth century migrants to the us were irish people of different religious hues.
Ford arrived in connemara able to understand a lot and speak a little irish but by the end of the quiet man he was fluent.
Given that his father was from Spiddal and his mother was from the aran islands it's Amazing just how little of the quiet man was shot in connemara, particularly given how spectacular it is. The bit where john Wayne walks his errant wife back from the train station starts in the middle of connemara, quickly switches to cong sixty miles away on the mayo border before reaching the train station in woodlawn in the East of the county. A brisk round trip of about 200 miles.
There are fewer trees in connemara than that movie would have you believeComment
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Many states have a sharp split between urban and rural (urban being a relative designation in Maine - Portland isn't a huge city) but Maine's GOP is especially unhinged.ursus arctos wrote:The concept of the "rest of New England" is under increasing strain as its constituent states diverge. Vermont, for example, is the land of Bernie Sanders and Ben & Jerry's, while its "Live Free or Die" neighbour New Hampshire is virulently conservative, largely due to the influence of self-described "tax exiles" from Massachusetts. And while Massachusetts is majority progressive, Connecticut politics reflects the fact that Greenwich is the epicentre of the US hedge fund industry.Isn't half of maine like the rest of new England, and the other half basically Hillbilly wilderness where people kill their own food.
But yeah, Maine is weird, and the closest analogue to Alaska (without the oil) that we have in the East.
Oh, and the "Cabot Cove" of Murder She Wrote is Mendocino, California, an entire continent away from Maine.
And many people accustomed to the image of "liberal New England," including many people who live there, are shocked to discover how racist a lot of it is.Comment
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