“You ask the people around here, they’ll tell y’all it’s the South. But your government’ll yell ya it’s the Midwest.” That’s what the waitress at a small cafe in Louisville told us when we asked her about the region, rolling her eyes a little as she began to answer. She emphasized “your,” making sure we... Continue Reading →
La Crosse, Wisconsin finds common ground in the midst of political division
Straddling the Mississippi River and the Wisconsin-Minnesota border it marks is the La Crosse Metropolitan Area. Boasting a population of about 135,000 people, 120,000 of whom live on the Wisconsin side, the moderately sized metroplex offers a bellwether look at how politics shape southern Minnesota and Western Wisconsin as a whole. More than half of... Continue Reading →