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Great Ceasar's Ghost! Everybody read the story linked in post #32! Unfrigginbelievable!
"...It's like finding a small island in the middle of the Pacific," says Mohammed Abdi, who last year moved here from Decatur, Ga., and was quickly hired as the liaison between the city's schools and the burgeoning Somali community. "We put it on the map."

"... At the start of 2001, not a single Somali lived in Lewiston. The old textile mill city of 35,000 had been losing population for 20 years, and in the 2000 Census counted but 361 black residents.
Today, there are some 1,000 Somalis, black and Muslim, in this sheltered redoubt..."

"...The newcomers are arriving from several Somali communities in the United States, but mostly from Clarkston, Ga., an old railroad town outside Atlanta that in the last decade was transformed into an ersatz Ellis Island for refugees from every ravaged corner of the globe..."

In their exodus, they say they are looking for peace and quiet, cheaper housing,A MORE LIBERAL WELFARE SYSTEM, better
schools and a place to raise their children — families of seven or more are common —with fewer perils and temptations. That they are leaving a metro area renowned as an African-American mecca to resettle in Maine, home to fewer than 7,000 blacks in 2000, is less a matter of irony than intent, given the prickly state of their relations with African-Americans and a desire to protect their children from assimilating too quickly..."

"Kids wearing bandannas, pulling their pants down, walking funny. It's no good," says Abdiaziz Ali, a buoyant, boyish-looking 31-year-old father of five who came to Lewiston in April 2001.
Ali, the son of a physician in Somalia, was hired as a welfare caseworker and is now the nimble impresario of Lewiston's Somali influx, greeting new arrivals, signing them up for emergency financial assistance, finding them places to live. When Mohammed Abdi arrived, Ali made the introductions that led to his job..."
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT? Emigrate here and quickly get a job handing out welfare benefits to friends and family!
Maine is one of the poorest states in the union. They just have a penchant for electing wacky politicians. They can't afford this madness.
NEITHER CAN YOU!