Editing Vermont (section)

====Demographic changes====
Beginning in the mid-19th century, Vermont industries attracted numerous [[Irish Americans|Irish]], [[Scottish Americans|Scottish]], and [[Italian Americans|Italian]] [[Immigration|immigrants]], adding to its residents of mostly [[English Americans|English]] and some [[Quebec diaspora#United States|French Canadian]] ancestry. Many of the immigrants migrated to [[Barre, Vermont (city)|Barre]], where many worked as stonecutters of [[granite]], for which there was a national market. Vermont granite was used in major public buildings throughout the United States.

In this period, many Italian and Scottish women operated boarding houses to support their families. Such facilities helped absorb new residents and taught them the new culture; European immigrants peaked in number between 1890 and 1900. Typically immigrants boarded with people of their own language and ethnicity, but sometimes they boarded with others.<ref name="barre">{{cite web|url=http://vermonthistory.org/journal/74/05_Richards.pdf |author=Susan Richards| title=Making Home Pay: Italian and Scottish Boardinghouse Keepers in Barre, 1880–1910| work=Vermont History Journal |date=2005 |access-date=October 23, 2013}}</ref>

Gradually, the new immigrants assimilated into the state. Times of tension aroused divisions. In the early 20th century, some Vermonters were alarmed about the decline of rural areas; people left farming to move to cities and others seemed unable to fit within society. In addition, there was a wave of immigration by French Canadians, and Protestant Anglo-Americans feared being overtaken by the new immigrants, who added to the Catholic population of Irish and Italians. Based on the colonial past, some Yankee residents considered the French Canadians to have intermarried too frequently with Native Americans.<ref name="VT.ster">{{cite web |author=Lutz Kaelber |date=2009 |title=Eugenics: Compulsory Sterilization in 50 American States: Vermont |url=http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/VT/VT.html |access-date=May 14, 2019 |publisher=University of Vermont}}</ref>

In 1970, the population of Vermont stood at 444,732. By 1980, it had increased by over 65,000 to 511,456. That change, an increase of 15 percent, was the largest increase in Vermont's population since the days of the Revolutionary War.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1970s VT: Fears of a hippie invasion |url=https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/2015/04/03/vt-fears-hippie-invasion/70846514/ |access-date=August 17, 2023 |website=Burlington Free Press |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2002, the State of Vermont incorrectly reported that the Abenaki people had migrated north to [[Quebec]] by the end of the 17th century;<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dillon |first1=John |date=March 20, 2002 |title=State Says Abenaki Do Not Have "Continuous Presence" |url=https://archive.vpr.org/vpr-news/state-says-abenaki-do-not-have-continuous-presence/ |access-date=January 31, 2022 |website=Vermont Public Radio |archive-date=January 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131015556/https://archive.vpr.org/vpr-news/state-says-abenaki-do-not-have-continuous-presence/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> however, in 2011, the State of Vermont designated the [[Elnu Abenaki Tribe]] and the [[Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation]] as [[state-recognized tribes]]; in 2012 it recognized the [[Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi]] and the [[Koasek Traditional Band of the Koos Abenaki Nation]]. In 2016, the state governor proclaimed Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day.<ref name="recognition">{{cite web |author=Angela Evancie |date=November 4, 2016 |title=What Is The Status Of The Abenaki Native Americans In Vermont Today? |url=https://www.vpr.org/post/what-status-abenaki-native-americans-vermont-today#stream/0 |access-date=May 14, 2019 |publisher=VPR (Vermont Public Radio)}}</ref> Vermont has no [[federally recognized tribes]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Federal and State Recognized Tribes |url=https://www.ncsl.org/legislators-staff/legislators/quad-caucus/list-of-federal-and-state-recognized-tribes.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025051136/https://www.ncsl.org/legislators-staff/legislators/quad-caucus/list-of-federal-and-state-recognized-tribes.aspx |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |access-date=January 31, 2022 |website=National Conference of State Legislatures}}</ref>