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    Real Christmas tree or artificial? NH and Maine polls reveal trend

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    DURHAM — Did you put up a real Christmas tree this year? You’re a minority: New polls from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center found that more people in Maine and New Hampshire plan to have an artificial tree this year.

    In New Hampshire, 44% of residents say they plan to have an artificial tree, while only 29% plan to put up a real tree and 22% will not put up a tree. In Maine, artificial trees outnumbered real trees by 10 points (37% to 27%), with 28% saying they would not plant a tree.

    The investigation center Granite State Survey found that in New Hampshire, the number of actual trees has dropped dramatically over the past 20 years. In the early 2000s, 63% of Granite Staters said they would have a real tree, compared to just 22% with an artificial tree. This number of real tree owners fell to 52% in the mid-2010s, falling below artificial trees after 2020 at just 35%.

    More than 70 percent of people who chose real trees in both states cite liking the look or smell as the reason they prefer them over artificial trees. They also enjoy the process, want to support tree growers or sellers, and think it’s more natural than an artificial tree.

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    The majority of residents in both states who decorate artificial trees say they chose this type of tree because they already have one, and a high percentage in both say it’s because artificial trees cause less damage and last longer.

    White Christmas in New Hampshire and Maine? Expectations vary, survey finds

    Even if a plurality of respondents still expect a White Christmas In New Hampshire, increasingly mild weather in the state appears to have led to a sharp decline in that number.

    In New Hampshire, 39% of residents expect a white Christmas, while 27% don’t expect there to be snow on the ground on December 25. 34% are not sure.

    This figure of 39% is much lower than in 2021 and 2013, when 61% and 81% respectively expected a white Christmas.

    Expectations vary by location, however: the majority of North Country residents, 81 percent, expect snow, while only 19 percent of Seacoast residents expect a white Christmas.

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    THE Pine Tree State Poll found that in Maine, 53% expect a white Christmas, 21% do not and 26% are not sure.

    The percentage is lower in coastal Maine: in southeast/coastal Maine, 51% of residents expect snow, and in southern Maine, only 43% expect snow.

    What Christmas movies are most popular in New Hampshire and Maine?

    Mainers and Granite Staters most often mentioned “It’s a Wonderful Life” as their favorite Christmas movie.

    States varied slightly after No. 1, but “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” and “Elf” were in the top four in both states.

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