Bill Kauffman makes the case for secession.
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These people need to find some real work. 
As a former Vermont resident, he is right about one thing. No other State has such a common theme amongst the people living there as a devout love of the State. I think in large part, this is due to the small size of everything there. It is personal enough that each person actually feels as if they participate in the government of Vermont. Therefore, each person feels as if they have in some minor way contributed to the very essence of Vermont and the conservation of the pastoral and beauty that pervades.
Vermont also really lacks the large urban environment. Yes, the Champlain valley and Chittenden Country are beginning to change. But even in Burlington, within 15 minutes you can be out in the country. And politically, there is not too much of a difference between Burlington and places such as Warren, Vermont. A senator such as Bernie Sanders does not get elected with such a wapping majority unless there is a connected politcal environment. Add that sense of sameness in terms of the Vermont experience a highly racially homogeniuos population, and viola - you have a State which really does come across as its own country. I say I am from Vermont I think with just a little more pride than say someone from Illinois, or Michigan or Connecticut. We are just unique.
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As a mildly chauvinistic southerner, I might have to oppose this out of sheer spite. Now they want to grant that the South may have had a constitutional point?
Posted by Maclin Horton | June 28, 2007 3:27 PM