Maine has been all over the news this past week in response to Governor LePage’s comment that out-of-state drug dealers named "D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" have come here to sell drugs and "impregnate a young, white girl before they leave."

The comments made national and international headlines before, predictably, the the backlash began.

First, the unfunny: A GQ correspondent named Drew Magary (who describes himself as “Author, Blogger, International bon vivant”) penned a satirical piece on January 8 titled “Maine: Do We Need It?”  Even though he spent only four years at a college in Maine, he felt qualified to jump on LePage’s disparaging comments as a platform to eviscerate the entire state’s population by concluding, “Maine is a terrifying wasteland with little to offer us in the way of economic or intellectual resources.”

Oddly, that didn’t go over well with real Mainers.

On January 9, blogger Shannon Thurston responded with a sarcastic rebuttal titled. “Maine: Why We Need It: A Response to a Privileged White Boy.” Then, on January 11, another Huffington Post blogger and Maine native Crystal Ponti, doubled down in a piece she titled: “In Response to GQ's 'Maine: Do We Really Need It?'”

Just goes to show that the “hicks from the sticks” stereotype of Mainers is still very much alive and well with the urban hipsters.

Now the funny: On January 9, someone nicknamed “Smoothie” on Twitter (aka @ManiacNewsGuy) started an account and tweeted: “White dudes from Maine are coming into the Bronx selling coffee brandy and making our black girls fat. Call the National Guard!”

In less than a week, the new Twitter account has maybe posted 30 tweets, but has amassed nearly 800 followers (and counting.) The salty tweets kept coming. Here are some of the best, all posted on January 10.

 “Holy crap. The lobster is so cheap here. Heading back to NYC with three live 1-pounders and a white woman.”

“Me and Shifty stayed at a lovely B&B in Camden. Shifty bought another f****** antique teapot.”

“Had haddock at DiMillos Floating Restaurant. More like floating nursing home. LePage, you need babies. Me and Shifty are here to assist.”

Even the power outage in Maine this past week got some play (along with a zing to Magary’s article):

“Hey, LePage, power's down again in your f****** Third World state. How do I know which girls are the white ones in the dark?”

Kay Stephens can be reached at news@penbaypilot.com