No single person can be the embodiment of Maine because Maine is a collection of tribal villages. On the coast you might have a leather-faced lobsterman who looks to be in his 70s but is actually 35. He's like to be thumbing through a Stephen King novel between trap lines hoping to see his town mentioned. He's probably wearing thigh high boots and a well worn mackinaw in good weather with an oilskin overcoat if the weather goes bad. Trousers are optional. To the north and west you have the Paul Bunion look. Red flannel shirt, trail pants, a beat up old bomber cap and ankle high boots from Bean. He's got a 20 inch chainsaw in one hand and his deer rifle in the other. To the south you have a guy wearing the latest fashion trends from Boston and these are the ones who "talk funny" .

That's a Portland Mainer. They're a breed all their own.

There's no "y'll" in Maine.

This never happened until people from Massachusetts and New York started migrating North

Yeah, at least that's the line they use to soften the weirdness? I have no issues with adult transgender people doing their thing, but I do have issues with schools teaching transgender in any form to grade school kids. Schools, IMHO, should do more to address bullying and less to placate gender warriors.

My point, that you missed or ignored, is that most of the MAGA crowd I've encountered have no problem with obscenity, profanity or what someone wants on their license plate. YOU are the one who started pointing fingers because for some people bringing Trump into a conversation is the only way they know to get attention.

Hey Peachman, No third grader needs to have you or anyone preaching your sexual proclivities to them. Childhood is and should be a time of innocence and there's plenty of time later on for them to learn about the birds, the bees and the bozos.

So your assumption about the people who started the whole "lets go Brandon" craze using the words that were actually being chanted is as wrong as your belief that Maine's elected bozos that are taking this puritan step are MAGA people. Great job Einstein.

The state charges a fee for those plates and an extra fee for vanity plates. I'll agree that the state owns the right to suspend your registration for a legitimate cause (like an uninsured accident or unpaid fines), but those plates are bought or leased by the person or business registering a vehicle and so long as the state allows ANY vanity plates they are overstepping by censoring what's on them especially AFTER they are issued.

I'd note that the same people who worry about kids seeing bad words on license plates apparently have no problem with schools teaching 3rd graders that gender is a choice.

You do realize that this is coming down under the Mills administration with a democrat majority in the legislature. Perhaps not the best time to go pointing your political finger?

Funny how that works. The government requires you to register your vehicle. Then it mandates that you put plates on it (front and rear). Of course, they charge you for the costs of those plates, a bit extra if you want so-called vanity plates. And now they want to censor what you put on those plates that you paid for by claiming they are government property. I've come to expect the government to be overbearing, but you'd think the state legislature would have more important matters to resolve than nasty words on license plates?

Looks like your purity only lasted until someone rubbed you the wrong way? Welcome to the modern world of nasty words.