I call BS on your thesis of “upper Midwest harassment of Amish.”
I have family in and around the Shawano/Bonduel areas, north of Green Bay, who live in an around and among the Amish farms and the general air has been one of cooperation and respect. The Amish have been known and valued throughout the Fox Valley, and in the counties north of Milwaukee for their craftsmanship and and work ethic - I have first hand experiences with them working on repairing and restoring barns, and haven’t once heard a negative word said about them or their communities.
A few incidents does not a movement make.
Whether or not your relatives up there in copper country like them or not, Wisconsin has a history of intolerace for groups that refuse to conform.
Kind of a Prussian sort of thing. In fact, the ol'boys that opened up the greater part of the state to agricultural development were Junkers who actually relocated their estates with thier Polish peasantry to America.
The Amish and the Mennonites didn't get along with those folks in Germany, and they weren't any happier with them here.
Like I said Upper Midwest laws that affect Amish behavior in particular leave the Amish with a choice ~ their money or their comfort ~ that is, pay more for the same acreage in Indiana and be left alone to be nutcases, or pay less in the Upper Midwest and be targeted (except by the locals who all think they are great folks but who fail to go out and campaign to elect folks to office who think so).