I grew up in rural Maine about 30 minutes from Lewiston. It’s devolved over the years into the same kind of fringe, right wing cesspool that is far too common all throughout the nation now.
This isn’t a political thing, but Jesus, Maine’s second largest city has 36,000 people in it? Sometimes I forget how freaking small population wise some states are.
Yeah, I would take interacting with the Somali refugees any day of the week over some of the trashy people who lived near me. Fond memories of the one guy who erected a massive confederate flag next to a hand painted sign covered in profanity laced tirade about the local board of selectmen.
As an example… Portland Maine has about 2 million people less in it than the Borough of Brooklyn in NYC. The entire state has a million less people than Brooklyn.
The combined Population of South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wyoming is less than Brooklyn. Not the entire city of New York… just Brooklyn.
So yeah… the GOP has to appeal to a smaller demographic for just as much if not more political power.
Yeah, I was driving through rural Michigan and saw some Confederate Flags flying off of porches. I thought, “We should arrest those people for treason”
I would repeal the apportionment act of 1929 (increasing the house of representative to 1 member per 30,000 Americans) and eliminate the filibuster in the senate.
Bleh at least Maine is scenic after 40 years of leftist rulers the left made Detroit look like Grozny after the Chechen war. Sad thing at least they rebuilt their city twice.