But it's really funny trying to explain Vermont politics to people from California and Texas. We're one of the top 5 bluest states in the country by all metrics, but we're the second most rural state, and our Republican governor was so popular in the last cycle that the Dems basically didn't fund a campaign against him. We definitely have Confederate flag waving idiots in the sticks like everyone else does, but driving over into Northern New York and New Hampshire makes it clear that it's nothing compared to a lot of rural America.