The state even got the “badger” nickname from mining.
The Left just hates . . . everything.
Exactly right on both counts
“The state even got the “badger” nickname from mining . . .”
I’m a native of Wisconsin, and lived there a long time before learning of the Cornish miners that came to work the lead mines in southwestern corner of the state. At first they were very poor, and some took to living in caves in the limestone bluffs, to which some of the local folk responded by remarking that the miners were “living like badgers.” The “Badger State” tag has nothing to do with the number of those rodents in the state, which actually is very small.
Many loads of lead shot were shipped by river barges to equip Union soldiers.