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Oct 1, 2012 · In Vermont, the state’s first Democratic governor in over 100 years, Philip H. Hoff, who served from 1963-69, helped his party to maker further gains, Mr. Nelson said. (Vermont would take a ...
Vermont has a record of voting for President Obama yet retains conservative state officials, he explains, because, though hundreds of thousands of new Vermonters changed the state politically in the 60s and 70s, longtime natives are fiscally conservative while having "little affection for national Republicans."
Check Vermont history prior to there Back to the Land movement Indeed, Vermont was "ruggedly individualist." VT and ME were the only states to never vote for FDR. ...who created the largest social safety net ever in America. Exactly. I draw a clear political distinction between old Vermont and new Vermont.
[112] [113] [114] Much of this immigration included the arrival of more liberal political influences of the urban areas of New York and the rest of New England in Vermont. [113] The brand of Republicanism in Vermont has historically been a moderate one, and combined with the newcomers from out of state, this made Vermont friendlier to Democrats as the national GOP moved to the right.
Vermont’s 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. In 1970, as the migration into Vermont got going, the state passed a law, Act 250, to limit development.
Oct 7, 2020 · A 2018 Gallup poll comparing ”political ideology by state” found Vermont the third most liberal state (after Massachusetts and Hawaii), but also that a plurality of Vermonters (36%) described ...
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Aug 8, 2021 · Editors of “The Almanac of American Politics” share their Vermont political outlook with VTDigger readers in the latest edition of the prestigious 50-year-old publication, due out in August.
