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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFinally! Why Vermont and New Hampshire are so different politically
Why didn't I figure this out?
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Vermonts political landscape began to change in the 1960s and 1970s. City dwellers from nearby states like Massachusetts and New York began fleeing struggling metropolises like Boston and New York City. Heading north, these migrants had a choice of where to settle, and some self-sorting took place.
More conservatives tended to choose New Hampshire, attracted to its low taxes and Live Free or Die ethos. Vermont, where cows outnumbered people before 1963, tended to attract young, left-leaning and outdoors-loving professionals, both Mr. Nelson and Mr. Johnson said.
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http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/new-vermont-is-liberal-but-old-vermont-is-still-there/
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)Have drawn Birchers and their followers and successors to NH since the '50's. Many of the icons of NH conservatisim are/were recently arrived from somewhere else (like Mel Thompson and the Loebs), others exist on connections/money from "away" (like the Sunnus and the Bossies).
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)and I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Vermont is where I want to be.
You know you're in the right place when the lady doing the information session makes it clear that this is a liberal college. She also pointed out that because the state has such a small population they were able to have a huge influence.
Please, oh please, oh please, let my daughter get into and go to Middlebury.
cali
(114,904 posts)nichomachus
(12,754 posts)That way they can collect their government pensions and even double-dip without having to pay state income tax. They're usually older and don't have school-age kids, so they don't care that the schools -- apart from a few towns -- pretty much suck.
slampoet
(5,032 posts)Seemed they had one of every vehicle at the mall in Nashua back in 2000.
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)Jennicut
(25,415 posts)I hate the crazies in NH but love the natural beauty of the state and the White Mountains. And Vermont is quite beautiful as well. I would retire to either state someday if I could. Connecticut is pretty cool but do we have tons of traffic.
aikoaiko
(34,170 posts)Seriously.
piratefish08
(3,133 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)Doing genealogical research on my husband's ancestors, I've found that a lot of people from Rhode Island moved to southern Vermont or the northwest corner of Massachusetts in the late 1700s. They were the radicals and freethinkers of their day, and I think they established the climate of intellectual openness.
cali
(114,904 posts)and Vermont was the 1st state to outlaw slavery.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)We have ocean and you dont. So there.