Interesting column in The New York Times about where liberals are congregating - - California and San Francisco, for example, not Iowa and Davenport - - and why some states with fewer new liberal immigrants are tough to turn blue.
Says the Times piece:
I've long felt that attacks by the 24/7 GOP partisan Scott Walker's on Wisconsin cities and the UW System, along with other actions like disconnecting Madison from Amtrak services through the Midwest, discouraging transit, solar power, wind energy, unwinding the state's environmental legacy and diminishing the concept and reality of the commons, for example, are intended keep the state safely Republican by making the state unattractive to students, millenials, urbanists and newcomers of all varieties who, with their liberal backgrounds and open minds, might come here for college and, later, to take a job, raise a family, and open a business because they found Wisconsin attractive.
Wisconsin is a purple state.
I put nothing past Walker, his mentors and funders at the Wisconsin-based Bradley Foundation, and the entire GOP machine that controls all three branches of government, to do anything they thought might turn Wisconsin's electoral college votes safely Republican red.
Says the Times piece:
Go Midwest,I don't see that piece being sent around the Walker network, unless it's with the message line - - 'Move along - - not here!'
Young Hipster
I've long felt that attacks by the 24/7 GOP partisan Scott Walker's on Wisconsin cities and the UW System, along with other actions like disconnecting Madison from Amtrak services through the Midwest, discouraging transit, solar power, wind energy, unwinding the state's environmental legacy and diminishing the concept and reality of the commons, for example, are intended keep the state safely Republican by making the state unattractive to students, millenials, urbanists and newcomers of all varieties who, with their liberal backgrounds and open minds, might come here for college and, later, to take a job, raise a family, and open a business because they found Wisconsin attractive.
Wisconsin is a purple state.
I put nothing past Walker, his mentors and funders at the Wisconsin-based Bradley Foundation, and the entire GOP machine that controls all three branches of government, to do anything they thought might turn Wisconsin's electoral college votes safely Republican red.