Why has Vermont become so liberal

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Native Vermonters, for all I know, may still be voting for Republicans (as they still do, to some extent, in the Northeast Kingdom).  But with all the foreigners colonizing the area [just as they do here in the Berkshires, 3 miles south of the border], it's little surprise that the state swung Democrat--and that the liberalism has rubbed off on the local population.  Plus the locals were never really Conservatives of the modern stamp, anyhow.

New England is generally weird politically as it is.

[Erc]

Just to prove my point.

Howard Dean, the shining example (to most) of Vermont Liberalism.

From "Real Vermonters Don't Milk Goats," (c) 1983, a little gem of a book I had lying on my shelf.

One section of the book classifies people by how close they are to being Real Vermonters.

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(Dean, of course, was born in New York, grew up in the Hamptons, went to prep school, went to Yale, and only arrived in Vermont in '78 to do his residency at UVT).


On Jim Jeffords:

"Congressman Jeffords can't decide if he's a Republican or a Democrat, wants to be a Senator or a Governor, or where to sleep at night--in his office or in a house like real Vermonters do."


How Prescient.