re: Vermont Resettled Somalis, Shootings Are Up 185%

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I always enjoyed these types of discussions while in Utah once they found out I was from Alabama.

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i mentioned this a few times, but i'm not a well known poster or anything, so it won't sound repetitive.

my wife and i went up to MA, NH, MN, and VT for a trip this fall. Portsmouth, NH and Portland, MN were very proud of their rainbow flags and BLM signs everywhere. never mind that i saw a total of one black person in NH and maybe half a dozen in Portland and all of them were working.

i also noticed very clean downtowns, no homelessness, no panhandling, etc.

it's very easy to be "for" diversity, immigration, gay rights, etc. when it doesn't affect you at all. i had an acquaintance in Vermont (from Texas) during the last election that was making fun of Beto and Abbott going after each other on social issues and the border. He was proud that his governor's talking point was "we're #4 in education and we're going to work to get to #1." no shite sherlock. when you don't have to worry about inner city youth, poverty, immigrant students, and crime, it's really easy to focus on first world problems and champagne issues.

also, i came away understanding why they're all socialist up there. i had 20 and 30 year olds waiting on me at these great little places in beautiful downtown Portland and Portsmouth that were all picturesque and exactly what you think of for a nice little coastal town. For fun, we looked at Zillow and everything within 3 miles of downtown was $500k+... on the low end... for dumps that i wouldn't live in.

we drove up the coast instead of the interstate from Portsmouth to Portland to see some light houses. We went through this community called Cape Elizabeth. Gorgeous homes, drove by tons of young women in their LL Bean gear picking their kids up from school buses and walking them back up to pristine colonial homes.

for fun my wife and i looked up the town.

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interesting stats:

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The median income for a household in the town was $72,359 (2007 est. 92,604 aol.realestate.com), and the median income for a family was $106,126 in 2000. Males had a median income of $61,128 versus $32,500 for females. The per capita income for the town was $47,983. About 1.3% of families and 3.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.5% of those under age 18 and 8.1% of those age 65 or over.

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As of the census[13] of 2010, there were 9,015 people, 3,616 households, and 2,620 families living in the town. The population density was 613.3 inhabitants per square mile (236.8/km2). There were 3,963 housing units at an average density of 269.6 per square mile (104.1/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 96.6% White, 0.5% African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.4% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.3% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.4% of the population.

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Cape Elizabeth voted for all Republican presidential candidates from 1968–1988 by double digit margins, then voted Republican narrowly in the three way election of 1992, and has voted for each of the seven Democrat presidential candidates since 1996; five of them by double digits.

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here's the houses available for sale in CE.

again, i get why they're all socialist. how in the hell is the median income of the household $75k, but you can't buy a house for anything just short of a million?

oh right, because you're an entirely white town with 0 diversity or poverty and you're all sitting on generational wealth and anything you vote for will never effect you.

anyways rant over about New England. Eastern Maine and central NH were based AF. my type of people.