Sporer discusses growing extremism in Maine with BDN
University of Maine sociologist Karyn Sporer discussed the growth in outspoken extremist sentiments in Maine with the Bangor Daily News. “Extremists have always had a foothold in Maine, period,” said Sporer, also principal investigator for the Department of Homeland Security’s National Counterterrorism, Innovation, Technology and Education Center. “The difference is people’s willingness to state their extremist and hateful ideologies.”