in 1988 vermont caucused for jesse jackson. in 2008 [View all]

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and 2008, Obama won his largest percentage of a state vote in Vermont outside DC and Hawaii. That was repeated in 2012. Every single county in this undiverse state voted for him twice, mostly by landslide margins.

No, Vermont's not ethnically diverse, though that's slowly changing, in large part because the state actively welcomes minority immigrants.

None of this is to say that Vermont doesn't have problems with racism. It's obviously lacking in racial diversity, but as a whole Vermonters are dedicated to civil rights and social justice. Vermonters may be overwhelmingly white but they've demonstrated repeatedly that they're willing to look beyond their own skin color when it comes to leadership.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson_presidential_campaign,_1988http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Vermont,_2012http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Vermont,_2008