On the other hand, If Vermont is such a heaven, why do only 600,000 people reside there? Is it because of the weather ? Or maybe because Vermont is too small ?
It is interesting to compare the list of the most religious states, to the list of smartest states .... particularly if you look at the top and bottom ten in each list.
The correlation isn’t 100%, but its pretty strong.
http://www.statestats.com/edrank.htm
I can’t comment on how these stats were developed.
what I can comment on is Vermont is no such heaven and yes,there are less than 700,000 people here.
We get lots of snow & some are still depending on dial up to connect w/the ‘net.
Burlington is a big college town but on the whole it’s fairly insular here and I think it takes a special kind of person to live north of Massatwoshits.