I wonder if socially liberal white poors besides college students even exist.
I'm thinking not particularly of college students, but of places that are hubs for former students, people living anti-materialist lives, organic farmers, former hippies, etc.
Vermont is too full of rich liberal Boston and New York retirees to be considered poor. The state's per capita and media income is thousands of dollars higher than the national average.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_County,_Vermont
MHI: $40,972. National MHI: $50,740.
Vermont is not full of New York or Boston transplants. Vermont has a low rate of internal migration, maybe one of the lowest in the country (probably the Great Plains have lower rates, but maybe nowhere else).
Washington County is home to the state government and a number of colleges.
Take Lamoille County, then, if you really don't like Washington County. MHI $39,356.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamoille_County,_VermontOf course, Vermont's state government is so small and the colleges in Montpelier also so small, that the influence on the demographics of Washington County is minimal. The county is decidedly rural in nature; Montpelier is no more than a rural very small city.
You can look at any of the other decidedly rural counties if you want. Caledonia, Orange, Windsor, etc. All have MHIs around $10,000 or more below the national average, all are overwhelmingly white, and all are decidedly social-liberal.
