Then there are the metro and collegiate contingents that account for statewide majorities in national elections.
We are schizo and it is heartbreaking in the land of Muir, Leopold, Nelson and Lafollette that our other big name politician, Joe McCarthy, has like-minded descendants still barging into our electoral results and finding favor in many pockets of the state.
The partial, yet strong, success of the Regressives is due to the McCarthy residue fertilized with plentiful Koch Cash and latent racism due to our ethnic (German, Polish) heritage that still flavors politics, though receding as the elders and their prejudices pass.
Those prejudices remain, but in a more "dog whistle" form, such as exurban, private religiously schooled Ryan complaining about the "urban" turnout.
It is a hunting state that seems to equate the second amendment with the hunting culture - a HUGE topic here at election time.
We once were the home of "Sewer Socialists" who took care of infrastructure and the Commons with tolerance for all. Now we are squandering that legacy with the likes of Walker.
And, of course, Kindergarten was started here and now the state is taking the wrecking ball to Public Education.
I must stop - a sad topic.
= new reply since forum marked as read