Interesting article on Vermont's voting patterns

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Regardless of recent voting trends, I still find the idea that Vermont has always been a "progressive" state (in the modern sense of the word) to be a bit of a stretch.
I would describe the politics of pre-Sanders/Dean Vermont as right-of-center with a strong libertarian tinge.

For one thing, the strong level of support left-wing and center-left populist and labor presidential candidates received in the Farm Belt and Mountain states and urban centers of the Northeast and Midwest was almost nowhere to be found (outside of a few granite and quarry mining areas like Barre).

The Prohibition Party candidate ran ahead of Debs in 1912, LaFollette only receive 6% in the state (his second-worst state outside the South), in 1932 it wasn't one of Norman Thomas' top 20 states, nor was it one of Henry Wallace's top 20 best states in 1948. And, of course, it voted against FDR all four times, and progressive hero Adlai Stevenson failed to get more than 30% in both of his runs.