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February 9, 2016

Reborn Maine mill town offers lessons amid refugee crisis

By DAVID SHARP
Associated Press

LEWISTON, Maine — The arrival of thousands of Somali refugees in this former mill city in the nation's whitest state sparked a backlash at first, complete with a rally of white supremacists and a pig's head rolled into the local mosque.

Fifteen years later, the Somali newcomers are solid members of the community, as evidenced by its proliferation of shops, restaurants and mosques — and a championship-winning high school soccer team featuring players from Somalia and other African countries.


 
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