There’s a sizeable patch of liberalism within about a 100 mile radius of Dubuque. What’s up with that? Seems out of place.
Norwegians, that's what. A somewhat coterminus area of western Wisconsin, s eastern Minn, n eastern Iowa, and N western Illinois is populated by large numbers of Norwegian descendants of whom many vote Dem. This phenomenon has already been noticed by a writer for the Milwaukee-Journal/Sentinel.