You are wrong about Maine.
I live in Maine and it is VERY pro-military.
Most of the stories on the evening news on Tuesday here in The Pine Tree State were stories about veterans, Veterans’ Day activities, parades, etc. This included interviews with 7 and 8-year old kids who said “we owe everything to our veterans, we’d having nothing without them,” etc.
Maine, per capita, had the highest numbers of National Guard troops in the Iraq War of any state. Whenever a member of the military lost his life in Iraq or Afghanistan, there were lengthy stories on the news about the deceased soldier/Marine/sailor/or airman and his family, his service, etc.
Contrary to the posts of some on FR, Maine is a flag waving state. Sure, every state has it’s share of moonbats....Maine is no different....but should we judge a conservative state like Alabama because of the idiot in Anniston?
Also, I’ve lived in California and the small towns there are every bit as conservative as their counterparts in Texas and other red states.
We were down in Lomita and I was astonished by the number of American flags flying in peoples yards everyday
We are from the SF Bay Area and such widespread patriotism is unheard of here
What was even more surprising to me is Lomita is in a huge urban sprawl
Really wasn’t expecting it and made me so sad to think of how people are back home
I would agree with you outside of York County/Portland. Sadly, that’s where all your population is. I was heartened however to see that you finally have a normal person and that the GOP there had the good sense to kick Kevin Raye to the curb.