'The Progressive Realignment of Vermont, 1969 - 2006'

《佛蒙特州的进步重组，1969 - 2006》将是佛蒙特州脱离共和党重组的第一部当代史。虽然被称为参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）的故乡，但桑德斯只是东北部城市发动的选举革命的一个方面，这场革命颠覆了新英格兰的政治格局--在成为全国进步复兴的基础之前。从根本上说，我的研究将问为什么佛蒙特州，曾经是最保守的国家之一，经历了一个渐进的重新调整，为什么这是重要的理解美国左翼政治全国。从20世纪70年代开始，佛蒙特州人称之为“嬉皮士入侵”，主要是年轻人，白色，以前参与反文化运动的州外移民的涌入，在20世纪80年代，90年代和2000年代进行之前，我的研究将考虑嬉皮士入侵在佛蒙特州政治转型中的作用。我将用未来民主党总统候选人伯尼·桑德斯和霍华德·迪恩的政治崛起作为案例研究。虽然两人都是佛蒙特州和民主党的变革人物，但他们象征着佛蒙特州重新调整的不同理想。桑德斯，独立的社会主义者，和迪恩，建立自由主义州长。使用几十年的格式，我的研究将记录的政治景观，促进了二人的不太可能上升到国家的突出地位，与现有的历史编纂的问题，如文化战争，“争论是否20世纪60年代的社会变革已经受益或损害了美国”（哈特曼，2019年，第102页）。我的研究将在2006年结束，在迪恩2004年总统竞选失败并于2005年当选民主党全国委员会主席之后，桑德斯于2006年当选参议员，这是佛蒙特州重组国有化的高潮。

'The Progressive Realignment of Vermont, 1969 - 2006' will be the first contemporary history of Vermont's realignment away from the Republican Party. While known as the homeland of Senator Bernie Sanders, Sanders was just one facet of an electoral revolution waged in north-eastern municipalities that upended the political landscape of New England - before serving as the foundation for a national progressive resurgence. Fundamentally, my research will ask why Vermont, once among the most conservative states, underwent a progressive realignment, and why this is important for understanding American left-wing politics nationally. Beginning in the 1970s with what Vermonters dubbed the 'hippy invasion', an influx of predominantly young, white, out-of-state migrants previously involved in counterculture movements, before proceeding through the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, my research will consider the hippy invasion's role in Vermont's political transformation. I will use the political ascensions of future Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Howard Dean as case studies. While both have been transformative figures in Vermont and the Democratic Party, they symbolise differing ideals of Vermont's realignment. Sanders, the independent socialist, and Dean, the establishment liberal governor. Using the multi-decade format, my research will document the political landscape that facilitated the duo's unlikely rise to national prominence, connecting with the existing historiography of matters like the Culture Wars, 'a wrangle over whether the social changes of the 1960s had benefited or harmed America' (Hartmann, 2019, pg. 102). My research will conclude in 2006, following Dean's unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign and election as Chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2005, alongside Sanders' election to the Senate in 2006, the culmination of the nationalisation of Vermont's realignment.