My Blog

9/29/2025

The State of Vermont, our Green Mountain homeland, faces today an existential crisis. The future of our great state is imperiled by forces which are working to erode our identity, prosperity, and culture. Our local politics have devolved into boomer slop focused on empowering foreigners, minorities, and communists at the expense of the native Vermont population. The biggest political events in our community center around advocacy for foreign people and foreign countries, all while the next generation of Vermonters face problems such as inaccessible housing, crime, drug abuse, unemployment, and nihilism. This completely backwards way of viewing the world and serving our people will lead us down a destructive path which will make the Vermont of tomorrow unrecognizable from the Vermont of yesterday. That’s why, just as I am American First in national politics, I am Vermont First in local politics.

Vermont in 1970 was a very different place from what it is today. According to census data, the Vermont population was 99% native Vermonters. There were officially only 4,447 foreign born people living in the state. The state was also roughly 80% Christian, as shown in Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study (RLS). The median hourly wage in Vermont was roughly $3.50 in 1970, and it rose to around $28 by 2025. However, when indexed to the price of gold, the median worker went from earning 1/10th of an ounce of gold per hour to less than 1/100th of an ounce. This is why things seem so unaffordable despite annual median household earnings going from $8,234 in 1970 to $74,014 in 2020. The quality of the money has decreased greatly, dragging down quality of life. The population has gotten much older than it was in 1970, with the median age going from 27 to almost 43, making Vermont now one of the oldest states in the nation. The population also isn’t replacing itself. Vermont had about 2.35 children per native woman in 1970, and that has fallen to below 1.80 in 2025. This will continue to decline when considering the social and economic landscape of Vermont currently. The median home in Vermont was $25,000 in 1970, and now sits at around $431,500 today. For rent, the median gross rent was $179 a month in 1970, while it has risen to around $2,000 today.

All of these metrics show the transition between a state which was young, healthy, and economically stable in 1970 to one which is old, expensive, and infertile today. The populations which have experienced the most significant growth have been foreign and minority populations. The Black population in Vermont is eight times greater than it was in 1970, the Asian population has increased ten fold, and the multiracial/Hispanic population has increased almost fifteen times over. Obviously, when starting with very small numbers, it is easy to get such large percentage increases in the span of 50 years. However, with the white population in Vermont being in decline since 2010, and the native population being one of the oldest and the smallest in the nation, it is relevant to note just how fast minority races and foreign populations are growing comparatively. Vermont remains one of the most homogenous states in the nation, but current trends and current leadership can erode that quickly. Even a small number of immigrants, say 20,000 young refugees, have the capability to completely transform Vermonts social, economic, and political landscape.

I have nothing against people of different races, cultures, countries, or religions. I simply recognize that Vermont was just 50 years ago a young, white, Christian state, and it is quickly trending away from that. With changes in demographics comes changes in cultural practices, politics, and general beliefs. I am a native Vermonter who comes from a family who has been here for many generations, and I think that the way of life, religion, culture, and ethnic heritage of my ancestors is something valuable and worth preserving. I don’t even have a problem with natural immigration. My main concern is the attitude of local politicians where they hold minority races and immigrants from out of state or foreign countries as more important than natives. Our elected politicians are supposed to serve us as their constituency, and they are supposed to govern our community to make it safer, more prosperous, and more desirable to live in. I however feel that they are more focused on the issues of immigrant ethnic minorities, foreign wars, and weird culture wars than the actual issues of long time Vermont residents. This needs to change, and we need our leadership to put Vermont and Vermonters first.

The native Vermonter is struggling currently. Aside from huge issues previously discussed such as affordability in the state and birth rates, the social culture of Vermont has been in decline. Vermont has become a very secular state, without any clear religious ideology. While Pew claims that 54% of Vermonters identify as Christian, this is anecdotally at the high end. In my own personal experience, I’d estimate less than 30% of the people I interact with regularly are Christian in any meaningful way, and very few young people actually practice religion. The older, rural areas of the state carry on some Christian traditions, but these populations are at the greatest risk of declining due to age and brutal economic forces. 66% of adults in Vermont were married in 1970, and this has fallen to 49% as of 2023. Vermonters also get married almost 7 years later than they did in 1970, which contributes to the lower birth rates. Some of this may be due to economics, as more Vermonters live with their parents into adulthood than ever before. Almost 40% of native young adults have left the state since 2010, which has further damaged the growth of the state. Again anecdotally, young people are struggling. Many are deep in debt, feel despair or apathy about the future, and see things likely getting worse instead of better. There isn’t much excitement for what could be and what is to come, and there is a decline in positive values. A lot of the people who seem the most happy here are sexual deviants who incorporate strange behaviors into their identity and politics and foreigners who have fled a culture so bad that they can appreciate ours even in its diminished form.

While Vermont is much bigger than just Burlington and Montpelier, the politics of the urban areas have shaped the culture over the past 50 years. The University of Vermont is known for being one of the most liberal schools in the nation. It currently is made up of 75% out-of-state students, and the undergraduate class was 63% female in 2024. Now again, I have nothing against women or out-of-state students, but having a big group in your most prominent urban area be underemployed, liberal, non-resident women significantly changes the local political climate. Considering most leave after graduation, the amount of influence these people have on our culture is far too great. Aside from something tangible like UVM, there are many intangible qualities of Burlington which spill over to the rest of the state. It is hard to properly describe this culture other than being incredibly progressive, leftist, and secular. I highly encourage those curious as to what goes on in the political scene in urban Vermont to check out the YouTube channel Town Meeting TV. They post great content which highlights the types of events, discussions, and issues which the activists of our community are concerned with. Note as you watch how little concern they seem to have for young native Vermonters when compared to coverage of any foreign groups or LGBTQIA++ individuals.

Vermont is an amazing state with a great legacy which must be continued. We have strayed far away from what Vermont once was. In some ways, change is inevitable and there are things which are outside of our control in our small region of green mountains. We will likely never go back to the Vermont of the 1970s, or the 1900s, or the 1800s, and we shouldn’t be saddened by that. We more forward, that is natural. However, what we should be ashamed of is the current cultural rot taking place in urban areas, the social and economic struggles of our youth, and the fact that our local politicians are more concerned with sexualities and wars happening on the exact opposite side of the world rather than a struggling man or woman on the streets of Burlington. We have to put VERMONT FIRST in our politics and that means conserving our heritage and our culture into the future, while making this state a more viable place to live for the descendants of the families which carried the torch of Vermont for the last century.