Here’s a wiki page on Lewiston, Maine (lots of Somalis there)with a snippet of why they went to Maine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewiston,_Maine#Somali_and_Bantu_migration
“”In 1999, at the urging of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the United States government began preparations to resettle an estimated 12,000 refugees from the Bantu minority ethnic group in Somalia to select cities throughout the United States. Most of the early arrivals in the United States settled in Clarkston, Georgia, a city adjacent to Atlanta. However, they were mostly assigned to low rent, poverty-stricken inner city areas, so many began to look to resettle elsewhere in the US.[2]
Word soon spread that the town of Lewiston, Maine had a low crime rate, good schools and cheap housing.[3] Somalis subsequently began a secondary migration from other states to the former mill town, and after 2005, many Bantus followed suit.””
In other word, if you live in a nice town like that, keep your mouth shut.