The vast majority of our population is scrunched into the southernmost quarter of the state. I'm not sure but I would guess Maine is the poorest of the New England states. Our economy depends very much on tourism and economic connections to the rest of New England, which means the state "faces" the south, in a sense.

Not a whole lot going on up in the north by comparison. Just forest and many many lakes which alternate between being frozen or mosquito infested depending on the season.