In the acrid and escalating clash between red and blue America, there is no battleground quite like metropolitan Milwaukee. Spectacularly divided, remarkably mobilized, frequently fought over, its politically lopsided communities have been veering apart for more than 40 years.
Democrats and Republicans aren’t just strangers to each other in their politics — they increasingly live in separate worlds. In its ultrapartisan geography, this is arguably the most polarized place in swing-state America. …
Metro Milwaukee’s dividing lines are America’s dividing lines, only starker: black-white, urban-suburban, married-unmarried, young-old. CONT.
Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel