It's the original socialist state that experienced a slow and brutal Republican takeover. It still has a latent left tradition and it's still overall left leaning - despite this the Republicans have a legislative supermajority due to flagrant gerrymandering.
Literally 1 train going from Milwaukee to Madison would permanently turn it into a reliable blue state with room to move left. Which is why the Republicans desperately killed the proposed train project in 2010 despite it being fully federally funded
I wonder now if they were explicitly only fighting for white labor rights. Settlers does a great job showing how the vast majority of historical labor movements in the u.s. essentially sabotaged themselves by organizing along explicitly racial lines, excluding black workers, and then ultimately blaming them when they got wrecked from the inside by capitalist deal making.
I'm sure people were racist as fuck in 1920 but I think a big factor is that Milwaukee didn't get Black migration until much later than the rest of the North, in like the 60's and 70's
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name me one good state
vegetative
Whichever state I live in because I'm there
Whichever state I live in at any given time is the worst state in the world.
:virgil-sad:
virgil wisconsin
Dante Alaska
existential crisis
It's the original socialist state that experienced a slow and brutal Republican takeover. It still has a latent left tradition and it's still overall left leaning - despite this the Republicans have a legislative supermajority due to flagrant gerrymandering.
Literally 1 train going from Milwaukee to Madison would permanently turn it into a reliable blue state with room to move left. Which is why the Republicans desperately killed the proposed train project in 2010 despite it being fully federally funded
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Probably means Democratic-leaning.
They all live in Milwaukee and Madison
And yeah you pretty much gotta draw a green dotted line through it to see the lean
It's NIMBYs :deeper-sadness:
The whole country is fucking nimbys
Sorry. It's exceedingly racist NIMBY's.
e: which, you'd also be right to say is the whole fucking country so...
The whole country is exceedingly racist nimb- saw the edit
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It's also the single most segregated city in America.
Used to be an important hotbed for American Socialists, too.
:deeper-sadness:
Milwaukee is a city of contrasts.
I wonder now if they were explicitly only fighting for white labor rights. Settlers does a great job showing how the vast majority of historical labor movements in the u.s. essentially sabotaged themselves by organizing along explicitly racial lines, excluding black workers, and then ultimately blaming them when they got wrecked from the inside by capitalist deal making.
I'm sure people were racist as fuck in 1920 but I think a big factor is that Milwaukee didn't get Black migration until much later than the rest of the North, in like the 60's and 70's
IDK to be honest, though it would not surprise me.
I have a Frank Zeidler biography laying around somewhere I could read and learn a little more about it.