maybe but having lived up there up there for a bit I would go for the ignorant part.
I was surprised that everyone IO talked to over that time while I was up there never knew about Frank, him being a homo or even the prostitution ring .
The media up there have to be the most biased I have ever seen and that is something seeing as I have lived around the world in many countries and around this country
And that is because, in the last 30 years, the papers have been systematically bought out by out of state liberals.
The venerable old paper I used to work for, the oldest in the state, was still locally owned when I started = now owned by a conglomerate from down south - uber liberals who know nothing about real Maine or Mainers - and don't care to.
We're not, in the words of one of the publishers, "OCP"
I asked her what that stood for and she said, "Our Class of People."
I replied: "Thank God for that."
She gave me a puzzled look - I think she was trying to figure out if I had agreed with or insulted her. They are a dumb bunch.
manc
An aside: You are, you say, a world traveler - and you "opt for the ignorant" as pertaining to Mainers.
From your post, I would guess you have been to busy traveling to pick up such mundane things as the rudiments of English, grammar, punctuation and such???