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Originally Posted by ChiSoxRox
How polarized is Milwaukee?
The last Republican to win Milwaukee County was Eisenhower in 1956.
The last Democrat to win any of the WOW counties was Johnson in 1964.
The Milwaukee/WOW split has held firm for six decades!
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man, those WOW counties sure are committed to their policical conservatism.
once upon a time decades ago, you could have made the comparison that waukesha county and dupage county down in chicagoland were extremely similar counties. both majortiy white, large concentration of midde and upper middle post-war suburbia, lots of college degrees, high incomes, politically conservative, etc.
but not any more. dupage, like many upper middle class white suburban counties around the nation has taken a hard turn left recently (
+18.1 biden), while waukesha remains steadfastly conservative(
+20.8 trump). in the last election, they were damn near inversions of each other, yet the underlying demographics haven't changed anywhere close to that radically.
it's a very curious development to me.