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And they try to secede from the Union every now and again, too.

I don't rightly know if any "grassroots" movement is going to sweep the nation because of this town meeting takeover. Heck, I'm willing to wager that the referendum isn't due to a grasssroots effort at all, given that Vermont is for all intents and purposes a suburb of Boston now, and there's most likely a fair bit of move-on money still being thrown around up there.