Taylor County ranks 2nd among Wisconsin's 72 counties in having the largest percentage of its presidential vote for Donald Trump in 2020. Barack Obama lost the county by just 0.3 percentage points in 2008.
Source: Wikipedia
3rd-party candidates received 28.2% of vote in 1992, 19.8% of vote in 1996, 5.3% in 2016;
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 14% of the vote in 1968)
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.
Sources: Wikipedia (presidential, gubernatorial)
The population of Taylor County has remained relatively flat for the past 100 years, showing modest increase of 10% Wisconsin's population has increased 124% and Dane County's has increased 560% since 1920.
Source: Wikipedia
You don't get much whiter in Wisconsin than in Taylor County.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
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