[aeroplane]

the answer is Yes.

Can you hear how intimidated some of the conservative (or non-liberals) are to even post their opinions? I'm in the Burlington area and it's so liberal it's intimidating to be conservative. People get angry and want to debate. They can't even believe someone may be here and not be liberal. I mean this as constructive info for anyone considering coming here...

[Sockeye]

Ditto Boulder Colorado, aka "The People's Republic of Boulder"

[MRVphotog]

Originally Posted by aeroplane

the answer is Yes.

Can you hear how intimidated some of the conservative (or non-liberals) are to even post their opinions? I'm in the Burlington area and it's so liberal it's intimidating to be conservative. People get angry and want to debate. They can't even believe someone may be here and not be liberal. I mean this as constructive info for anyone considering coming here...

I think most college town's, including Burlington and Boulder, across the country are going to be liberal/progressive leaning.

[sugarmama!]

i didn't read all the replies..sorry if i am repeating.

having grown up in a small farming community, and being a vermonter...i would have to say that many of the people i know are NOT liberal. *i think* that the natives and older people/generation seem to be very conservative. also, it seems that the out of staters that move in, are in fact the liberals.

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by MRVphotog

I think most college town's, including Burlington and Boulder, across the country are going to be liberal/progressive leaning.

I agree. I am in a college town on LI and the area is overwhelmingly liberal. They keep me here as the token conservative

[flu189]

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

I agree. I am in a college town on LI and the area is overwhelmingly liberal. They keep me here as the token conservative

Yes, campus communities lean to the left, but it's kind of funny that many of my former college friends, my wife's, and my older son's, since entering the real world and having experienced work, taxes, military service, and general day to day obligations, etc., have shifted quite a few of their idealistic view points and opinions, some I might add very dramatically.

[pucabear]

Originally Posted by sugarmama!

i didn't read all the replies..sorry if i am repeating.

having grown up in a small farming community, and being a vermonter...i would have to say that many of the people i know are NOT liberal. *i think* that the natives and older people/generation seem to be very conservative. also, it seems that the out of staters that move in, are in fact the liberals.

I was an "outofstater" who moved in. I am a conservative. I taught in the public schools while in Vermont for 7 years. I must say, some of the most outspoken, in your face, rude people were the "natives" that were teaching and working there. I am not an in-your-face type person...so it was a not a good experience.

[goatwoodward]

As native Vermonters have told me, "Burlington is gorgeous... and so close to Vermont!" As I understand it, Chittenden County now has more than its share of lefties, but historically, Vermont has been republican. (I forget which movie, but in an old black & white movie I watched, people from NYC were about to vacation in Vermont & joking about the rarity of finding a Democrat in VT.)

Chittenden County, however, has enough people to sway elections, especially since temporary residents such as college students, are allowed to vote.

Funnily enough, I was swayed more liberal when I lived in Northern VA, turned off by all the money-grubbing, power-hungry, judgemental CEOs. Now that I've moved to Burlington, VT, I've swayed back to fiscally conservative moderate from all the far-lefts ideologues I've encountered.

Here's a cute cartoon: Ideologue

[mariposa4249]

Who cares about liberals and the laws they pass? I do, and so should every one else!

I heard on tv that, in Vermont, a judge gave a child sex offender a slap on the wrist (six weeks in jail), for the rape of a six year old... ouch!!! (I also heard on tv that he raped a child, again.)

This worries me a lot 'cause, I would think that a lot of sex offenders live there because, they may have heard of the above mentioned case...

Mariposa4249

[vter]

mariposa...don't believe everything you hear and see in the national news media. There is way more to that story than the national news was reporting.