Like Iowa, Northern Illinois and Minnesota, Wisconsin was historically pretty centrist and humanitarian. It's only recently that the rural areas have swung to t

Like Iowa, Northern Illinois and Minnesota, Wisconsin was historically pretty centrist and humanitarian. It's only recently that the rural areas have swung to the right. The Revolutions Podcast also introduced me to the history of the Forty-Eighters, who had a tremendous impact on the politics of the Upper Midwest. Particularly in Wisconsin. And that's on top of a substrate of communitarian values brought by the original European settlers pushed westward from Massachusetts. It's really a post-millennial phenomenon that the politics are now dominated by a pan-US urban-rural divide. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Eighters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Eighters https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-11-Rival-Regional-Cultures/132391 https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-11-Rival-Regional-Cult...