>>18431483
what happened?

>>18431483
I don't think about Vermont
New Hampshire is your closet neighbor maybe someone from NH will come in and speak about it

>>18431483
>Lesbian republic

Yeah I bet it was absolutely nice place to live in

It was incredibly based and it would've been neat if it could've somehow maintained independence, joining the union just put them back under New York domination

>>18431866
It was inevitable

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>>18431483
Fuck Vermont, they stabbed John Stark and the New Hampshirites in the back after he liberated them from New York's encroachment and protected their land claims. Literally a nation of traitors, only came into being because Stark would rather focus on, you know, fighting the British than putting down a bunch of retards throwing a hissy fit over paying taxes to the people who helped defend their claims and stopped the new yorkers from kicking them off of their land.

I will say though, they probably hold the record for hardest national anthem.
https://youtu.be/KUGE8_O4-6I?si=h56xV4lY3azMIBkr

>>18431578
I hate being this predictable...
>>18431866
That was never going to happen. It doesn't make sense to not join the union and have the ability to trade freely with the rest of the states.

>>18431483
I don't, and I'm a New Hampshirite. As is Vermont is a colony of NY. Had they stayed independent they'd have ended up going the exact same way, except we'd be shooting them at the border.

Vermonters are subhuman. Lazy, retarded, and desperate to be something they're not.

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>>18431483
Based. I love Vermont. I live here.
Technically the first New World nation to ban slavery

>>18431483
These little quirks of early American history in the phase between colony and republic make me wonder what sort of historical anecdotes were lost from ancient civilizations. I wonder if in 1000 years anyone will even know about the early states and their debates over the articles of confederation, most Americans today are uninterested in the period entirely and I do not imagine that trend will reverse. Anyone have any good reads on the period during and roughly after the Revolutionary war?

>>18431483
why do white people love this place so much

>>18432613
It’s gorgeous and rural with very few browns to ruin it. Plenty of druggie white trash to ruin it though

>>18431483
Vermont is interesting because they've never commercialized. They're the last state in the union without a Walmart in its capital, and their culture places a very large emphasis on sourcing everything locally from Vermont. They're very proud of who they are and self-reliance is a great virtue of theirs. All of their towns are populated by almost entirely small businesses.

That aside, walking around Vermont gives the image of a place that is very clearly past it's prime. It does however feel like a last holdout of the original anglo-america before corporatism took over the country in the 20th century. New Hampshire is the same to a lesser extent, but mostly only in its north and west along the Connecticut river.

>>18432102
>Technically the first New World nation to ban niggers
based

>>18432613
It's gorgeous, incredibly safe, wealthy, educated.
>>18434198
In Vermont we have a motto "Keep Vermont Weird." Meaning buy local, don't be consumerists, appreciate nature and all of that.

>>18431519
Vermont was originally a disputed territory between New Hampshire and New York.
New Hampshire charted towns across Vermont to strengthen their claim, but the king decided with New York - who quickly sought to remove the "Hampshire Granters" and make it into a series of basically feudal estates for aristocrats

This caused locals, like the brothers Ethan and Ira Allen, to form a militia (The Green Mountain Boys) to fend off New Yorkers.
When the revolution started, Ellan would join in the fight and take fort Ticonderoga.
Later in 1777 Vermont would declare independence from both the UK and New York.
This independent Vermont Republic was most famous for participating in the battle of Bennington, and being the first New World nation to ban slavery.

Vermont was independent for 14 years until a compromise was made allowing Vermont to become a state on the condition that slavery would still be illegal there and New York give up its claim to the lands of the green mountains.