Laboring in the Land of Lily-Whiteness

The SBC has just released a very good tool at http://www.peoplegroups.info/. This information comes from this site. I always knew my own community of Skowhegan, Maine, was very white- but it was interesting to see just how white it is.

You Know You’re From Maine When…

A lady in our church sent these to me. They are too good to keep to myself…

• You’ve had arguments over the comparative quality of Fried Dough.
• You call four inches of snow “a dusting.”
• You don’t understand why there aren’t fried clam shacks elsewhere in the country.
• You know what an Irving is and the location of 15 of them.
• You knew all the flavors at Perry’s Nut House.
• Your car is covered in yellow-green dust in May.
• You can drive the Augusta traffic circle without slowing down.
• You’ve hung out at a gravel pit.
• You think a mosquito could be a species of bird.
• You once skipped school and went to Bar Harbor, Old Orchard Beach or Reid State Park.
• Even your school cafeteria made good chowder.
• You’ve almost fallen asleep driving between Houlton and Presque Isle.
• You know how to pronounce Calais.