Burlington, VT has been run by Democrats since then, and it's very pleasant.
Are you sure it's a party thing?
Ditto Portland, Seattle, Madison, and many other large and small cities in the Midwest and West.
Jim, Burlington gets the lions share of state revenue through lobbying and a large voting block. Look into act 60 and 68. I’m in southern VT. a town of 2200 and we are a sharing town which means we more than match our school budget and seen that to the state, our roads look like Bosnia and we consider ourselves No. Mass because that as much attention as we get from Montpelier.
“Are you sure it’s a party thing?”
Indeed - It is just a coincidence that the population is largely black. We will keep playing these word games to our complete demise because you can’t fix what you can’t correctly identify.
Are you sure it's a party thing?
Bingo! I was hoping someone would make that point. Inconvenient truths are inconvenient.