So your family escaped to Canada and then you moved to Vermont to live among liberals?
In the second half of the 18th century half of my family was in danger of being killed by the reign of terror in France because they put their Church ahead of Robespierre et al. The other half was endangered by the English genocide of French Catholics in Acadia.
Both sides figured that despite Vermont’s long winters and poor farming it was still a better place to live. We’ve been here 210 years, slightly longer than the liberal flatlanders.