I have lived next to Vermont most of my adult life, and have been there possibly twice that I can remember. I simply never got what people's fascination was with it.
It's like a more rural version of New Hampshire...same landscape, really. Only met a few people from there my whole life, too. They seemed like the peace-love-dove type of liberals vs. the snooty, elitist Cambridge type liberals I deal with constantly down in the PDRM.
Hippy liberals are slightly more tolerable; their liberalism is borne out of doe eyed ignorance, vs. the liberals like DUers who are drunk on their own self importance and feel they need to be the healing light of the world.