Dividing Lines: Already polarized, Wisconsin's fault lines now wider

Milwaukee J-S ^ | 28 dec 2014 | Craig Gilbert

[shove_it]

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

[ripley]

“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

[goldstategop]

Voting in Wisconsin 2014:

[aumrl]

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

[ought-six]

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

[goldstategop]

Voting in Milwaukee - Scott Walker didn't carry the county in November:

[sphinx]

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.

[JPG]

Remember me?

[JayAr36]

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?

[Paladin2]

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/

[Paladin2]

Sherriff Clarke won again though....

[Paladin2]

Sheriff Clarke won again though....

[DUMBGRUNT]

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)

[Fightin Whitey]

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.

[usconservative]

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.

[Moonman62]

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.

[Moonman62]

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

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

[all the best]

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.

[1010RD]

It’s a Democratic mouthpiece.

[1010RD]

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