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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an interesting story about the changing landscape of local politics — or, as the story puts it, how “what was red is now blue, and vice-versa.”
Check out the story here. From it:
In recent decades, the North Shore suburbs that were once bedrock Republican have grown steadily more liberal and Democratic-leaning.
The suburbs in southern Milwaukee County once dominated by blue-collar and union Democrats have grown increasingly Republican.
What was red is now blue, and vice-versa.
That is the case in South Milwaukee.
A chart in the story above shows 61 percent of South Milwaukeeans voted Democratic for governor in 1966. In 2010, that figure stood at 47 percent, a 14-percentage-point swing that is in line with changes in Greenfield, Cudahy, St. Francis, West Allis, Oak Creek and Franklin.
For further proof, consider local results from the spring primary and the November gubernatorial election.
What do you think of this data? Is South Milwaukee blue, red or somewhere in between? My take: We’re purple, somewhere between liberal and conservative, somewhere in the middle, somewhere like where I am.
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