The last time Ozaukee County voted Democratic was in 1964 and before that in 1936. Until Trump appeared on the ticket, it has always been a solid GOP stronghold.
Trump hasn't been fully embraced here. In 2016, he received 5,633 fewer votes than Romney did in 2012, while Clinton improved on Obama's vote tally by 1,011.
In 2020, Biden had the best performance by a Democratic presidential candidate since LBJ in 1964. It seems that Trump has moved Ozaukee County in a purple direction.
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 9.3% in Ozaukee 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.
[Ozaukee County's current population of 91,503 is 91% white, compared to 81% in Wisconsin and 60% nationally. Percentage of residents 65 and older is 20.4% compared to 17.5% in Wisconsin and 16.5% nationally.]
Ozaukee County vaccination rate is 7 percentage points higher than the statewide rate of 64%.
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