"Politically segregated" is a term I read for the first time in an article about geographic political concentrations in Milwaukee's Journal Sentinel. The concept is of course familiar, but the elegance of the phrasing is what caught my eye. Hat tip to RealClearPolitics for the link.
If you check out the map you see that, to an amazing degree, Wisconsin's Republicans and Democrats live in different places. It is striking how much the two groups have chosen to live apart.
Clearly the Republicans control most of the real estate, acreage-wise. Value-wise, the split is probably more equal as urban land is more expensive than rural land.
COTTonLINE has written before of the very real possibility of the U.S. lapsing into "tribal" politics, with Democrats mostly non-white and Republicans mostly white. The article underscores this trend in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Republicans are more likely to be married, to be older, to be white, to own their homes, and to live in places with lower density. They tend to characterize the split between the parties as one of "makers vs. takers" with them being the makers.
Wisconsin sounds like a near-perfect microcosm of our nation's politics. It is a good article, worth your time.
