Yes, we know this is the second whitest state in the country (yup second, Maine is the first), and yes we know that here (like everywhere else), racism exists. Yes, we know that we appear homogenous and sheltered, and maybe we mostly are. We know that we have no "ghettos" and we will never, ever have decent fashion (heels don't go well with mud).
However, if you would look past the college-student dominated Burlington (cough, out of staters, cough), and past the "rustic" farm houses and dirt(mud)-roads, past the dainty white houses and covered bridges, past the summer houses on lake champlain and past the yuppie mansions in the middle of cleared fields, you might notice that we are not as "sheltered" from the world as you like to think.
Vermont experiences all the same problems as other states, just on a different scale and in different proportion. And if you couldn't even find our state on a map before you moved out of your amazing city, maybe you're the one who's sheltered.
Love, Vermont
This has been such a resentful week, hasn't it? My next entry will be more light-hearted.
Posted by lib at October 30, 2007 02:55 PM