Of Wisconsin's 72 counties, only Florence County had a higher percentage of votes for Trump in 2020..
In 2020, almost every rural county in the state voted for Trump. Many counties registered two Trump votes per Biden vote, similar to the sum total of the suburban Milwaukee WOW counties of Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington.
That's a far cry from 1992, when most rural Wisconsin counties voted for then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton over Republican President George H.W. Bush. [Don't put too much stock in this; third-party candidate Ross Perot corralled 8.4% of the vote nationally and 19.8% in Taylor County.]
Today, about 30% of Wisconsinites live in rural areas and rural millennials are fleeing to population hubs, according to Malia Jones, a social epidemiologist at UW-Madison's Applied Population Laboratory. [19.5% of Taylor County's population is 65 and older compared to 16.5 nationally. Its current population of 20,322 is about the same as it was in 1940 and is 95% white, compared to 81% in Wisconsin and 60% nationally.]
It's also the state's least vaccinated county.
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