Don't blame the farmers, everyone of them that I've met in the last sixty plus years has been rock solid conservative Republican. If you're looking for the "loony left" you'll find it largely in Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, & Dane counties (even there, just the urban areas) the exception to that being our Indian reservations are solidly "blue" counties. I suspect voter fraud in the Indian areas. Wisconsin is blue by about 12,000 votes out of 3,000,000 and again I suspect massive fraud which went w/o investigation in 2000 and again this year. The urban areas are the tail that wags the dog for an otherwise conservative state. Last year we had passed a CCW bill, the demo governor vetoed it and we came w/in one vote of overturning his veto. The deciding vote was cast by a democrap who changed his vote to "no" under party pressure. Sucks major big-time!!
Regards,
GtG
PS Our "karmic scores" get evened out by the general population in our prisons, even the scum have some standards. Not pretty but it works for me!
The Farmer-Labor Party was big in Wisconsin and Minnesota. This was the bedrock liberal party of those two states. It's influence resonates even now though neither of those two states will ever be as loony lib as a coastal state like California or Massachusetts. The only reason there are a lot of Hmong in those two states is that liberal churches sponsored them with the taxpayers eventually picking up the tab for their welfare, rent, food stamps, job training, education and other social programs. Yes, Hmong do work but there is inordinate exploitation of the social welfare state by these Asian hillbillies.
Just for the record, Bush won Racine County - But you are correct, the city of Racine is as leftist as it gets.