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I dunno, Minnesota DOES have the Northwest Angle. What's more remote than a part of the state that you have to trek through Canada to access it on land?
It's definitely disconnected (though you could argue many of Maine's island's, like Isle au Haut, are equally as disconnected), but it's not the same vast expanse of wilderness that you'll find in Northwestern Maine. Northwest Angle is about 400 square miles of land. Isla au Haut is 113 for comparison's sake. Maine's North Woods is about 5,500 square miles.
MN has a bigger variety of terrain, from plains to forest to lakes. MN is more into sports (especially Hockey as someone else said). ME is mostly English with some French while MN is mostly German with some Scandinavian when it comes to ancestry. Both are pretty laid-back states. MN has more brutal winters.
MN has a bigger variety of terrain, from plains to forest to lakes. MN is more into sports (especially Hockey as someone else said). ME is mostly English with some French while MN is mostly German with some Scandinavian when it comes to ancestry. Both are pretty laid-back states. MN has more brutal winters.
This is a pretty good summary, but I'll add one more thing: Both are fairly Democratic and have been for a while. The margins aren't huge, but they're pretty consistent. And yes, although it can get quite cold in Maine, the ocean moderates the temps a little, while landlocked Minnesota can be extremely cold--well below zero..
This is a pretty good summary, but I'll add one more thing: Both are fairly Democratic and have been for a while. The margins aren't huge, but they're pretty consistent. And yes, although it can get quite cold in Maine, the ocean moderates the temps a little, while landlocked Minnesota can be extremely cold--well below zero..
The extremes of cold in MN are a bit greater with Tower, MN holding the state low temperature record of -60F in the Iron Range region, while Allagash holds the state record for Maine at -50F in The County.
It's definitely disconnected (though you could argue many of Maine's island's, like Isle au Haut, are equally as disconnected), but it's not the same vast expanse of wilderness that you'll find in Northwestern Maine. Northwest Angle is about 400 square miles of land. Isla au Haut is 113 for comparison's sake. Maine's North Woods is about 5,500 square miles.
The Northwest Angle isn't remote at all. You can easily get to it via land (yes, through Canada) and also via boat (Lake of the Woods). In fact, technically when you enter the Northwest Angle by car through Manitoba, you're expected to check yourself in at the unmanned US customs station; if you truly wanted to, you could just drive right across the border and never even stop.
However, there are parts of northern Minnesota that are so remote and isolated that the only way to travel to get to them is by canoe (The Boundary Waters, Voyageurs National Park). There's quite a bit of completely untouched, rugged wilderness in the Arrowhead region.
Most of Maine has no accent although southeastern Maine has a lot of whole who fled the Boston area for one reason or another at some point..they have an accent that is similar to Boston’s but almost more English sounding..it’s the Maine accent.
Downeast Maine has, or used to have, a very distinct accent which was satirized in the Bert & I broadcasts from 50, 60 years ago, famous for the line "you can't get there from here" but with the broad A in "can't" and two syllables but no 'R' in "there" and "here." I suspect it's taken about that long for the accent to fade.
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