“Cairo was closer to Mississippi in culture than Wisconsin”
Indeed. Some people in “Egypt” wanted to join the Confederacy if I’m not mistaken.. Worst was Gallatin County on the Indiana border. Almost entirely White, it still votes more democrat than it should. It was famously the only county to oppose Jim Edgar in 1994. Huge swing to Romney but it backed Obama in 2008.
We vistied Galena when I was a kid, in the winter. We were gonna toboggan and stuff. Unfortunately, I immediatly came down with pneumonia, exacerbated by my asthma and spent the entire trip in the hospital (actually a nursing home or something that offered emergency care).
Jim Edgar called the people living in Gallatin County fags. ;-D