What is your take on the overall intelligence of VT people? Don't they claim to be the smartest state in the Union?
They are...just ask any of them. They STILL bash people, especially Southerners, for their stupidity re: 2000/2004 election results.
Well, probably. That's because an enormous portion of the current Vermont population has moved there from that bastion of certitude, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A place where not tax is too big(kinda like Sen. Kennedy's trousers).
Interestingly, in 1795, it was said that the literacy rate of New England was somewhere around 95%. AH, Puritan guilt can be a great motivator! I would guess that the literacy rate in ole New England is a mite less than 95% today.
Vermont and intelligence? Well, just take a look at who it biggest pols are. It seems that libs are most pleased with themselves when they are being deliberately obtuse and question positively everything. They delight, apparently, in parsing everything to distraction.
Soon the state slogan in Vermont will read thusly: "Words are precious, action is cheap."
I rest my case, your honor.