Sorry, but having lived in several parts of the state of Vt the above is not accurate
The NY/Ct/mAss trustafarians and hippies have been invading the champlain valley, bennington corridors for easily 40 years now.
The number of people that I have met/known that fit the description you offered are a very very very very very small minority that was politically disenfranchined before they even moved to Vt.......
The leftists been statists the entire time.......implemented incrementally via taxes, regulation, unfunded mandates and a welfare program for anything you can imagine and a bunch that would leave you shaking your head in disbelief
Its been this way for decades
Vt used to be a solid republican state and as Marley states when you get outside of the larger population centers/college towns there are still some solid small gov folks but they're fewer and fewer every year and they're marginalized by the influx of far leftists that move to Vt every year
Like I said.....Vermont was NEVER pro rkba......they just hadnt gotten around to implementing statism on RKBA until recently........Champlain valley has been pushing the gun control issue for 20 plus years......Baruth has personallty been pushing for AWB's and other infringements since Newtown/2012