Liberal. Pro-choice to the point of birth, brags about how his father was an Anti-Vietnam activist.
Appleton is much more liberal than Green Bay, and definitely changed the balance of WI-08 when it was added to it in 2001.
Appleton voted for Bush, Green Bay for Kerry.
Holy crap, you're right. NE Wisconsin is a strange area, nearly impossible to understand even when you've lived there for nearly 20 years. Green Bay is uber-conservative in that they hate anything different and new, and they hate intellect and ideas in general. Yet they'll vote Democrat, which makes no sense to me. Appleton is a much more reasonable place, more open and accepting, but more Republican.
Green Bay is a conservative Democrat city, and Appleton is a moderate Republican city.