Happened in Vermont over the past few generations. For over a century, Vermont was a solid red state, opting for the Republican candidate in every presidential

Happened in Vermont over the past few generations. For over a century, Vermont was a solid red state, opting for the Republican candidate in every presidential election between 1856 and 1960, and consistently electing Republican governors. With the back-to-the-land influx of the Sixties and Seventies, this began to change. Vermont’s population surged by 30 percent in those decades, and the majority of the newcomers brought with them into the ballot box the same idealistic, environmentally oriented priorities that had brought them to Vermont in the first place. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/how-the-back-to-the-land-movement-paved-the-way-for-bernie-sanders-65188/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/how-the-ba...