Reply #12: Vermont isn't losing its Vermontness, it's losing a dominant livelihood.

[Gormy Cuss]

That was bound to happen just as it happened in Maine with potatoes and in most New England states with logging, paper and textile mills.

Northern New England has had significant out-migration of natives and in-migration from other states for decades. In some states the in-migration includes many immigrants from abroad (Maine has significant populations of Sudanese and Somalis, for example.) Has Maine lost its "Maineness" because of it? Some would say so. As a Mainiac who left I'd say that it hasn't lost its Maineness, it's just adapted what that means a bit.