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Maine

customerserviceguy

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2. Not too surprising

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2019, 08:49 AM

Apr 2019

given that the percentage of the population with Italian heritage in Maine is less than five percent:

https://www.niaf.org/culture/statistics/italian-american-populations-in-all-50-states/

Every person I met in the Northeast who had Italian ancestry considered Columbus Day to be their version of St. Patrick's Day, as celebrated by people with an Irish background.

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Maine becomes the latest state to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day [View all] nitpicker Apr 2019 OP

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Not too surprising customerserviceguy Apr 2019 #2

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