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You’ve clearly never lived in Maine. It’s just as bad with the shun the transplants attitude. It’s all bullshit anyways - those same people elected out of staters to run the place and are happy to accept those with the same political views as them. We just create this transplant scapegoat to blame our problems on when the issues we’re having now are as old as the state. We’ve always depending on federal aid. We’ve often been beholden to big business interests. It’s like we forgot the history of places like Butte.
Comment by YourNewDadIsHere at 02/02/2025 at 19:03 UTC
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Lol it probably wouldn’t be a stretch to say that most people who are in this sub have never lived in Maine. I do genuinely agree though, it’s difficult to see Montanans elect millionaires (and billionaires) from out of state to govern and represent the state. The transplant scapegoat isn’t honestly that much of a scapegoat. There is a reason when Romans conquered a place they transplanted their own people into that place to oversee it. It’s an interesting phenomenon that Americans by and large are no longer “from” anywhere. Far fewer people have roots that they are proud of. Generational Montanans don’t typically have that problem.