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Dividing Lines: Already polarized, Wisconsin's fault lines now wider
Milwaukee J-S ^ | 28 dec 2014 | Craig Gilbert

Posted on 12/28/2014 5:54:16 AM PST by rellimpank

At first glance, Gov. Scott Walker’s re-election last month looks like a carbon copy of his victory four years earlier.

He won the same kinds of voters. He won the same parts of the state. And he won with virtually the same share of the vote: 52.25% in 2010 and 52.26% in 2014.

But on closer inspection, there is an important difference: Wisconsin is even more polarized today than it was four years ago.

Based on almost everything we know about the Nov. 4 election, the state’s fault lines are deeper and more sharply defined, its voters are more divided along party lines and its communities are more politically one-sided.

The Journal Sentinel explored these trends eight months ago in "Dividing Lines," a series of reports exploring the bitter political polarization across Wisconsin and its most divided place, metropolitan Milwaukee. Democrats and Republicans don’t just have different views; they live in separate worlds.

In the aftermath of the 2014 race for governor between Walker, the Republican incumbent, and Mary Burke, his Democratic challenger, at least two developments have become clear. One, Wisconsin grew noticeably more polarized between Scott Walker’s first and last race for governor, even though the governor’s margin of victory was the same; two, this trend follows a long-term pattern in Wisconsin elections for major office – governor, U.S. Senate, president.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: craiggilbert; demagogicparty; kochbrothers; maryburke; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; politics; scottwalker; walker; wisconsin
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To: rellimpank

Life’s tough if you’re a cheese head - even tougher if you’re a prog cheese head.


21 posted on 12/28/2014 6:28:09 AM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: Steven Tyler

“Translation: Progressives are whinny sore losers.”

When Progressives win, that’s healthy.

When Conservatives win, that’s just like Adolf Hitler seizing power.

I get it. /s/

IMHO


22 posted on 12/28/2014 6:32:30 AM PST by ripley
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To: rellimpank
Voting in Wisconsin 2014:



23 posted on 12/28/2014 6:33:07 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Menthops

I like Walker
But I agree Menthops; the reasons are ‘beyond ‘ you


24 posted on 12/28/2014 6:36:17 AM PST by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: Stosh

No! If you excise Chicago and Cook County Illinois is a conservative state.


25 posted on 12/28/2014 6:37:02 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: rellimpank
Voting in Milwaukee - Scott Walker didn't carry the county in November:



26 posted on 12/28/2014 6:37:30 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: rellimpank
Analyses of community and residential polarization need to be adjusted for age, children (or the lack thereof), and income. Assuming a good neighborhood where physical safety is ok, young people are likely to enjoy urban living regardless of their politics, because of its convenience, reduced commutes, and abundance of nearby amenities. But then come children. A bigger house begins to look a lot more desirable, and then the schools ....

My wife and I opted to stay put. The house is bursting at the seams with a teen and a tween, but we'll be packing one off to college in another year, and we won't need to downsize as empty nesters. As for the schools, we have sucked it up and paid for private schooling. Voucher the schools, or find some other way to fix urban public education, and many more middle class parents would stay in the city.

The cities are where young people go to play, and establish a career. The suburbs are where middle class people tend to go to raise children. Of course the suburbs are more conservative than the cities. Married with children is a heavily Republican demographic.

27 posted on 12/28/2014 6:38:53 AM PST by sphinx
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To: rellimpank

Remember me?

28 posted on 12/28/2014 6:43:05 AM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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To: rellimpank

The lines are drawn: between the gimme group and their wannabe benefactors. I wonder how far the wannabes’ will go to feel good about themselves. Will they enslave the whole black community so they can pat themselves on the back?


29 posted on 12/28/2014 6:51:30 AM PST by JayAr36 (Old enough to remember when this was a free country.)
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To: rellimpank

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/06/13/big-houses-art-museums-and-in-laws-how-the-most-ideologically-polarized-americans-live-different-lives/


30 posted on 12/28/2014 6:55:47 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: goldstategop

Sherriff Clarke won again though....


31 posted on 12/28/2014 6:57:31 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: goldstategop

Sheriff Clarke won again though....


32 posted on 12/28/2014 6:57:39 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Stosh
just by moving across their state’s southern border.

Unfortunately I live in Illinois and I know many that move 'up north'.
Not so many moving south? (near zero)

33 posted on 12/28/2014 7:03:46 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good.)
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To: Stosh

Romney was a candy-a$$ candidate but it is remarkable how accurate his comment about the “forty-seven percent” has turned out to be, in many areas of the country.

We still have fifty percent who work and worship and pay and pay and pay.

Then there are the remainder who take and take and hate those who are taken from.


34 posted on 12/28/2014 7:04:01 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Stosh
Those on the 48% side of that dividing line can find everything they’re looking for (and more!) just by moving across their state’s southern border.

Not anymore they can't! Illinois' gone RED. Send 'em to Minnesooooooooooooooooooooooooooota! That's Socialist heaven, and that's where the moochers belong.

35 posted on 12/28/2014 7:13:27 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: rellimpank

But on closer inspection, there is an important difference: Wisconsin is even more polarized today than it was four years ago.

...

Obama spends his entire presidency whipping up racial tensions and even gets two police officers executed, yet nobody in the lapdog media would ever call him polarizing.


36 posted on 12/28/2014 7:20:24 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: ought-six
No! If you excise Chicago and Cook County Illinois is a conservative state.

Conservatives outnumber liberals everywhere except Hawaii, and Washington, DC.

37 posted on 12/28/2014 7:24:20 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

The most dangerous part are those who produce and at the same time encourage and enable the parasites. They have the money and talent that propel the “progressive” agenda.


38 posted on 12/28/2014 7:33:11 AM PST by all the best
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To: Williams

It’s a Democratic mouthpiece.


39 posted on 12/28/2014 7:44:57 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Menthops

So winning in a swing state counts for nothing? Walker has already done more than most “conservatives” in Washington.


40 posted on 12/28/2014 7:49:03 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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