voters in vermont must have heads planted firmly up their ass.
Vermont is full of poor people who were born there to hippie parents. Their parents moved there from NYC in the 1960s & 70s. Ben and Jerry are classic examples. They got rich selling ice cream.
There are very few good paying jobs in VT. It is basically a tourist economy. People who work at ski areas which for the most part is season work. Places like Killington are mostly empty in the summer. Lots of people get laid off come April.
There are still a lot of dairy farms in the valleys between the mountains. I think cows still outnumber people. The farmers are the only conservatives left. They will have signs on their barns that say TAKE BACK VT. The issue is they are way outnumbered by the slackers or part time workers.
When you see a nice looking house it is almost always a vacation home for someone from NY, NJ, CT, MA, RI, etc.
The same story when you stay at some small bed and breakfast inn. They are almost always owned by some guy and his wife that made their fortune on Wall street. Now they make pancakes.