From 1856 until 1988—with the single exception of the 1964 LBJ landslide, Vermont always voted for GOP presidential candidates. Vermont elected its first post Civil War Democrat governor in 1962. Since then, the Green Mountain state has had 5 Democrat governors and 3 Republican governors.
Relative to its population, more Vermont men paid the ultimate price for their country during the Civil War than any other Union state. In 1936, Vermont joined Maine as one of two states that did not vote for FDR.
Vermonters affectionately refer to themselves as “Woodchucks.”
What has happened? Since the 1970’s, many conservative and GOP-supporting Vermonters have moved to the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Florida. Ultra-liberal Moonbats from megalopolis—especially gays—have showed up to replace them. The result: Democratic super majorities in both legislative houses and a snake oil salesman ultra-liberal governor, Peter Shumlin. The final Woodchuck diaspora will occur as meddling, confiscating socialist-medicine apparatchiks drive out more conservative Vermonters. Pray for Vermont. Pray that ObamaCare will be repealed. If Obamacare is repealed, Vermont may lose its federal funding for “ShumlinCare.” Go Romney!
I couldn’t have said it better myself, except to add in the fact that that the Cambridge MA elites that couldn’t get a real job have made VT the place they come to test all their progressive legal theories.