nimh wrote:Didnt Vermont get so liberal in the first place because progressives flocked to Burlington in the 70s exactly in such a cause - to create a place of their own where they could become dominant?
I know the Libertarians have been trying it with New Hampshire (which won a vote against Montana as the destination of choice among those who pledged to take part) - but someone already posted a link about that.
Hmm ... the 1970s liberal/Progressive "take-over" of Vermont was probly less organised than myth would have it ...
This from some reports of their present-day libertarian counterparts of the Free State Project, who were considering Vermont themselves for a moment:
Quote:One Vermonter estimates that the number of hippies who moved to Vermont in the 1960s and 1970s was about 20,000
Quote:[Free State Project mastermind] Sorens' [..] enthusiasm for Vermont is also based in part on the results of their research into the so-called hippie invasion here in the early 1970s.
At the time, news articles and an infamous piece from the April 1972 Playboy Magazine titled "Taking Over Vermont" raised the question of whether a vast influx of young people into Vermont could lead to its takeover.
A lot of Vermonters, including some aging ex-hippies, will tell you no such thing was ever contemplated. Sorens thinks otherwise. He argues the state's shift toward the left over the last 25 years is proof the takeover indeed occurred.
"I think they were certainly less organized than we," Sorens wrote in his e-mail.
Oh and it was Wyoming that came second when the libertarian FSP'ers' eventually voted to collectively move to New Hampshire, a year or two ago ... Montana came third, and Vermont seventh. See
here
