Census data show that Maine has high percentage of same-sex couples
Stephen Marks, UMaine professor emeritus of sociology, is one of the experts quoted in a Portland Press Herald story reporting that only six states have more same-sex couples than Maine, according to 2010 U.S. Census Data. The story notes that there are a number of reasons, and Marks points out that “word circulates about which communities are tolerant of same-sex couples.”