re: I don't get Wisconsin

Like most states, WI consists of a few blue islands among seas of red.

WI has a very large and interconnected public university system. UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are beacons of progressive thought, but the smaller state schools stake out their territories too. La Crosse, Eau Claire, Green Bay, and others. Remember those massive protests in 2010 when Walker was pushing Act 10 to bust up the unions? That shite was happening on every campus. It ain't hard to find 100,000 liberals around Madison, or 10,000 liberals in the other college towns. These protests created the illusion that the citizens opposed the bill in substantially greater numbers than they actually did.

The rest of the state is deep red. They like their football, their beer, their tailgates. They're blue collar and redneck as hell. The Tavern League holds a lot of political sway. Fishing and hunting are huge. (Russ Feingold, one of the most liberal Senators we ever had, was actually a decent ally for gun rights, strictly because of the hunting culture up there.)

Wisconsin is almost a perfect 50/50 split. It's a state where one Senator came from the Tea Party and another is openly gay. A state that can break for Obama twice and then go to Trump. A state that elected Scott Walker, recalled him, elected him again, and then elected Tony Evers.

Source: born in WI, lived there for 25 years.

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So when they ruin Georgia, Texas and North Carolina, where do they move?

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Ideally, a small island in the middle of the ocean.

I would also take Liberia.

Perfect synopsis - very similar to Michigan (lived there 25 years).

Most democrats are Feingold-like and no one is going to screw with our guns. Even the liberals hoard bullets and ARs up here.

My wife has two brothers and one sister that lives in Milwaukee with their families. I know one brother is for any Democrat and the other one is for any Republican. I don't know about her sister. Their families follow whomever there parents want.

Of course her brother that is Democrat sends my wife a lot of hateful crap. I keep telling her to unfriend his arse, but she won't do it.

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Madison

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Under Donna Shalala, UW-Madison is where "Political Correctness" (the precursor to #Woke culture) was literally born.

It's a microcosm of the country. A couple pockets of elites and densely populated urban areas (Madison/Milwaukee) control the vast majority (land wise, not pupulation) with their vote. Same in Michigan, PA, and Ohio.

I have a good friend whom I worked with for years who still has a home near Milwaukee. His two brothers up there vote R. His sisters and sisters in law vote hard left. For some reason under 50 women don't like republicans.

Agreed.

Wisconsin is basically the Louisiana of the Midwest.

It's Boomers' fault for waiting until later in life to have kids who are now coddled and pampered and and who are easily distracted and swayed by the lies from Dems.

"Your parents were racists! (bullshite. the people before us put the policies in place. We tore them down) Don't be like your parents!"

Raise your kids better and that's not an issue. My daughter has a Trump yard sign up in her room in her sorority house at OU and a roommate that is a fervent Trump campaigner. They know bullshite and don't fall for that siren song from the campus socialists.

She wore a Trump MAGA sweatshirt to a class on campus and the professor asked if that was meant to be a joke in a very condescending way. She replied, "No more of a joke than attending this class. Is this class a joke?"

Proud of my girl.