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It's an expression that's quickly losing its meaning. I've heard of it being used in the other places for similar reasons, but I've only personally heard it here in Maine:

It used to be commonly accepted, and still is in places, that someone who wasn't born here, or even whose parents were not born here, could not be called a Mainer. Another version is simply "if a cat has kittens in an oven, does that make them muffins?"

This was, and in some places still is, a strong sentiment, derived from Maine's long history of settlement and pride in its culture. However, due to the great mobility that is a part of our modern society, every day it is becoming rarer to find (or even imagine) individuals who can say that their family has been in Maine -never mind in a particular small town- for up to 8 or 9 generations.

A newcomer "from away" (often still called a "flatlander," regardless of the topography of their state of origin) might still say they're "from Maine," but anything beyond that was viewed as presumption.

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