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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/wisconsin-trump-biden-suburbs.htmlAmerican Suburbs Are Tilting for Biden. But Not Milwaukees.
The predominantly white neighborhoods outside Wisconsins largest city, among the nations most racially segregated suburbs, could be a key part of President Trumps narrowing path to re-election.
By Trip Gabriel
Sept. 23, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET
CEDARBURG, Wis. When Michael Hicks and his daughter chalked Black Lives Matter on the pavement outside their suburban home, someone scrubbed it away within hours.
Then Mr. Hicks put up a Black Lives Matter sign on his cul-de-sac, only to find it tossed in a dumpster. He finally tried sticking signs in his garden, but a neighbor complained, and he removed them to avoid harassment.
They just seem to want to silence you in these suburbs, said Mr. Hicks, who commutes from a condo in Grafton, Wis., to a Milwaukee school, where he teaches health and physical education. Theyre so happy in their comfortable bubble.
As many suburban Americans reject President Trump, threatening his re-election like no other bloc of voters, the suburbs outside Milwaukee, among the most racially segregated in the country, remain a bulwark of support.
The well-educated, affluent counties north and west of the city have for decades delivered Republican landslides, defying a Democratic shift in suburbia in other Northern states.
For at least two decades, demographic changes in most American suburbs an influx of nonwhite, well-educated and younger voters moving out of cities or immigrating from abroad have pushed former Republican strongholds to become Democratic-trending regions.
In Pennsylvania, the president is trailing Joseph R. Biden Jr. by double digits in the vote-rich suburbs of Philadelphia. In Michigan, the decisive swing to Democrats by suburbanites in Oakland County, outside Detroit, gives Mr. Biden a statewide edge. In Arizona, the Phoenix suburbs helped Democrats win a Senate seat in 2018 and are the knife edge on which the state is balanced.
But in the region outside Milwaukee, including both inner suburbs and exurbs, Mr. Trump led Mr. Biden by 48 percent to 38 percent in a recent Marquette Law School Poll.
LakeArenal
(28,722 posts)Waukesha is so Republican.
onecaliberal
(32,483 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)and sooner or later some will figure it out
CurtEastPoint
(18,549 posts)SharonClark
(10,005 posts)It appears the Milwaukee suburbs are filled with married, conservative, white males between the ages of 45-59 who make more than $75,000. No surprise there.
The poll still had Biden up by 7% among register voters and 4% among likely voters statewide. We need to get those people out.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)It seems like the only way some of these NY Time political journalists can get a pitch into print: "Hey, I have a new angle on how this might be close?" Editor: "YES! THAT'S WHAT WE WANT!"
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,435 posts)It's the most segregated metropolitan area in the U.S. for a reason. I know because I grew up there.
The New Republic did an interesting article back in 2014 on Milwaukee and Wisconsin politics:
https://newrepublic.com/article/118145/scott-walkers-toxic-racial-politics
also:
https://archive.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/democratic-republican-voters-worlds-apart-in-divided-wisconsin-b99249564z1-255883361.html/