Yesterday, I happened upon this Washington Post essay republished at the indy-news site AlterNet.org. In the piece, the authors claim that “the winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State.”
Sounds a bit wishful to me, but I didn’t know that Vermont had its own constitution and operated independently in between the Revolution and the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Vermont these days is full of “flat-landers” (mostly from New York) who’ve brought their liberal politics with them to combine with the somewhat contrarian libertarianism of the natives to make for a political environment that supports a Socialist in Congress.
Meanwhile, over on the other side of the Connecticut River, the “Free State” folks haven’t given up on trying to turn New Hampshire into a right-wing libertarian utopia. Their idea — import about 20,000 like-minded right-wing anti-federal types so that they can load up local governments with people favorable to their cause.
I think that would make for an interesting bit of interstate rivarly, don’t you? Left-Libertarian Vermont versus Right-Libertarian New Hampshire? It would be great until some splinter faction in White River Junction decided to start an intifada.
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I’m still crossing my fingers for Ecotopia.
Posted by Karan [URL] on 04/11/07
