Of Wisconsin's 72 counties, Rusk County ranks 8th 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 22.3% in Rusk 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.
[Rusk County's current population of 14,188, a 20% decrease from its 1940 peak, is 94.4% white, compared to 81% in Wisconsin and 60% nationally. Percentage of residents 65 and older is 24.8% compared to 17.5% in Wisconsin and 16.5% nationally.]
Rusk is the state's 3rd least vaccinated county.
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Clark County. (2/6/2022)
Taylor County. (2/5/2022
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