Tuesday, December 20, 2022

GET ME REWRITE: Rural Wisconsin counties no match for Democratic shift in once-red suburbs (Clark County edition)

 
Clark County ranks 6th among Wisconsin's 72 counties in having the largest percentage of its presidential vote for Donald Trump in 2020.  Twelve years after Barack Obama won the county by more than 7 percentage points.

Source:  Wikipedia

In a word, no.
If the Democratic collapse in rural western and northern Wisconsin was the most dramatic feature of the state’s 2016 election map, then the unchecked Republican decline in suburban southern Wisconsin is the most arresting feature of the 2022 map. It is all the more striking when you consider that Republicans had reason to believe they might steady their suburban ship this year, with Donald Trump not on the ballot, with a Democrat in the White House who has poor job ratings, with crime and inflation playing prominent roles in the campaign. But that didn’t happen.

Since the 2008 presidential election, Democrats have not come close to winning a majority of the vote in Clark County.

Sources:  Wikipedia (presidential, gubernatorial)

The population of Clark County has remained stagnant for the past century.  By comparison, Wisconsin's population has increased 124% during the same period, Dane County 560%.

Source:  Wikipedia

And you won't find much diversity here.



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