Of Wisconsin's 72 counties, Clark County ranks 6th in the 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 21% in Clark 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. [Its current population of 34,659 is about 500 fewer resident than its 1920 peak and 92.4% white, compared to 81% in Wisconsin and 60% nationally.]
Clark is the state's 2nd least vaccinated county.
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Taylor County. (2/5/2022
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