The Stereotypical Vermonter
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The stereotypical Vermonter is a product of hundreds of years of Vermont history. Bryan and McClaughry trace the Vermont character all the way back to Ethan Allen but in reality the character of Vermonters was being shaped before Ethan Allen immortalized it with his words “The gods of the hills are not the gods of the valleys. (Bryan and McClaughry)”
The first people to come to Vermont came for similar reasons. Unlike other colonial counterparts it wasn’t for religious freedom, but rather for a more all-encompassing freedom. As Bryan and McClaughry recounted one early Vermonter threatened that “our people do not understand law” (Bryan and McClaughry). Early Vermonters came to Vermont to scrape a hard earned living out of a piece