Why was Vermont such a heavily Republican state for so long? (user search)
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« on: January 15, 2019, 03:23:46 PM »
I think it was basically tribal politics more than anything. The GOP was the party of Yankees (Civil War politics basically), and Vermont is arguably the most Yankee state in the country, so Vermonters stayed with their party until the parties really became polarized on ideological grounds rather than ethnic or regional ones.
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