Maine Is America's Most Overlooked State

Maine Is America's Most Overlooked State If you want more deep dives like this, subscribe. We're going through all 50 states, one weird contradiction at a time: https://shorturl.at/ZSbNK 00:00 Introduction 05:11 The Accent 08:03 The Food Culture of Maine 10:40 Stephen King 12:04 Maine's Population Problem 13:27 Portland 14:35 The Coasts 16:06 L.L. Bean 17:36 Politics 19:56 The County 21:06 The North Woods 22:42 Mount Katahdin 24:20 The Geographic Isolation Maine has more coastline than California. The state most Americans picture as a frozen postcard with a single lighthouse on it actually has around 5,300 miles of tidal shoreline. It has fewer people than the city of San Diego. It borders one other state and that is it. Everything else around it is Canada, ocean, or trees. Mostly trees. And almost no one outside New England understands that this place, the supposedly quaint vacation backdrop, is actually the strangest, most isolated, most quietly fractured state east of the Mississippi. Maine is essentially three states wearing the same license plate. There is the coast, which sells calendars and Stephen King paperbacks. There is the interior, 89% forest, where towns lose their mill and never recover. And then there is The County, Aroostook, an area larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined with 67,000 people in it, where French is still spoken on the street and the closest hospital is across the Canadian border. This is the state where lobster used to be poverty food fed to prisoners. The state with the highest concentration of native French speakers in America. The state where 75,000 moose share the road with you. The state slowly emptying out while the rest of the country thinks it's a postcard. 🔗 Here's a similar video:    • West Virginia Is America's Most Forgotten ...   🔗 Here's a recommended video:    • Ohio Is the Strangest State in America