A French dude 400 years ago called the mountains in Vermont “green.” Ver Mont. It stuck. Vermonters, being the creative folk that they are, never changed it. Well, they added “state” but that’s about it.
Vermont is also known for electing a screeching nut named Howard Dean, a wayward commie, named Bernie Sanders, having lots of maple syrup, and lots and lots of white people gnashing their white teeth with white guilt. Vermont is a very white state. As in the third whitest. Ninety-three percent of the population is as white as Bernie’s hair. Only about 1 percent of the population is black. You could fit Vermont’s entire black population into a high school gym in Indianapolis. There are about 1,000 Vermont Indians. One hundred and twenty-nine Vermonters are “Asian Hispanics.” And about 3 percent of the population calls themselves multiracial.
Vermont is loaded…
