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melm00se

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9. Having been born

Reply to crickets (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 8, 2021, 04:04 PM

Dec 2021

there I can actually answer this.

Maine has a population of 1.34 million people, has an area of 35,385 mi² and a whopping 16 counties.

The population distribution looks like this

When you get into some of these really rural areas (which, frankly, is most of ME), there are only enough people to justify 1 high school but it can be a hundred miles away but another district can have a high school 50 miles away.

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