Why are the "WOW" counties in Wisconsin conservative?

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Talk Radio has a big audience in the WOW counties from my understanding, Talk Radio in the WOW Counties scares State GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin the way it does sitting GOP members of Congress having to do with National Talk Radio in that they might recieve a primary challenge.

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How did it end up so much more consistently Republican than Chicago suburbs or Minneapolis suburbs?

Minnesota has a much more loyally Democratic tradition, doesn't it?  As for Chicago, the Chicago suburbs used to be MUCH Whiter than they are today

Minnesota-It could be probably because of the Mondale and Humphrey legacy that the White Vote is so D compared to most other states.  On the flip side the GOP still had both US Senate Seats in the 80's when Minnesota was still voting for Carter, Mondale, and Dukakis!

The Chicago Burbs(Lake, Kendall, Dupage, and Kane.)

64% White(Not including Hispanic)
20% Hispanic
7% Black
7% Asian

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How did it end up so much more consistently Republican than Chicago suburbs or Minneapolis suburbs?

Minnesota has a much more loyally Democratic tradition, doesn't it?  As for Chicago, the Chicago suburbs used to be MUCH Whiter than they are today.

But even the white ones don't vote like the WOW Counties. The only other midwestern city comparable at all is Cincinnati (but there while the suburbs are super Republican, they're less so than they used to be). For some reason while the upscale white collar suburbs of practically every other northern metro have moved leftward over the last two decades, Milwaukee has bucked the trend.

What will be interesting to see is if the trend continues to be bucked in the WOW Counties in a Post-Trump world.

I'm sure the Republicans will do fine in the WOW Counties Post-Trump. Talk Radio can't stand Trump anyway over there from my understanding.

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There's also strongly organized local talk radio which everyone in those counties listen to and get their political views from. Seriously, all the talking points people usually use come from Belling and Sykes.

Yeah Sykes is pretty huge over there. He is their local Limbaugh, Hannity, and Levin I think. Sykes couldn't stand Trump when the Republican Primary for President was going on. I don't know if that has changed since Trump became the Republican Nominee. Trump didn't carry Wisconson in the Republican Primary Cruz did.

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In 2016,

Clinton carried the city of Milwaukee: 188,687:45,422 (81%:19%, of two way vote)
She carried the remainder of the county: 100,134:80,676 (55%:45%)
Trump carried Waukesha County: 79,224:142,543 (36%:64%), Ozaukee (40%:60%), and Washington (29%:71%).

So it is simply a pattern of the city of Milwaukee being extremely leftwing, and the remainder of the county moderating that somewhat (the city had about 56% of the county vote).

Were Milwaukee more centrally located, rather than on the shoreline the metropolitan area would not be as bipolar.

But there are plenty of cities on a shoreline. Is Miami as polarized? Is San Diego? Is Boston?

Suburban Milwaukee has people who apparently accept the minority areas as a zoo with a non-human population and go along with politicians who would just as soon that such people disappear. For them, an extremist like Scott Walker is wonderful. He does not compromise.  If he gets 51% of the vote he has a mandate to treat minorities and liberal-leaning white people badly.

Donald Trump is like that. Scott Walker could well be the wave of the future in the America.

No Trump I expect to be more Moderate than Walker. Trump actually called Walker a failure as Governor during the Primaries. So Trump is not really a Walker fan but I'm pretty sure Walker voted for Trump in the General.