What's with those rural counties (Iron, Polk, St. Croix, and Door) increasing Dem turnout?
Polk and St. Croix are actually ex-urban Twin Cities. Door is high end retirement/vacation country.
Suburbia and higher income retirement locales had a history all primary season of having the best turnout improvements for the Ds
Iron is a random outlier
Yeah, lots of transplants from the Chicagoland in Door County.
Iron County used to be as Democratic, if not more so, than Ashland, Bayfield, and Douglas. At one point one could make the argument that it was the most Democratic county in the state. Other than 1972 it voted Democratic every year from 1928 to 2000. While only 12.6% Finnish in the 2010 Census, this number was much higher in the past. I'm not sure if the decrease is do people leaving the county or folks losing sight of their Finnish heritage and calling themselves German due to the overreaching culture of the state. That said, the political leanings of Finnish Americans in Wisconsin and generally nationwide (look across the border into Michigan) was very left, even to the point of socialist tendencies. This has waned over time and maybe there is a slight return back to Democrats?
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