Why is/was President Obama so amazingly popular in Vermont?

[All Along The Watchtower]

Vermont is part latte liberal, part dairy farmer, part college town, with a few industrial areas like Burlington etc. So it's really an ideal Democratic state, except for the fact that there are relatively few minorities there.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Most people who live in the countryside aren't farmers! I've often wondered if the sort of industrial dairying you see in the U.S creates a small rural proletariat that votes in the logical direction, given subsidies etc.

Yeah, that would apply to Wisconsin as well.

Keep in mind, though..many of Vermont's  modern rural voters are certainly NOT proletariat.