I live in the South, but once worked for a company with offices in Wisconsin and have been to Madison twenty-five or thirty times.
I used to tell some of the more sensible ones that they did not have to live the liberal convictions of all the liberal whackos they sent to Congress. 90% plus white at that time. Maybe Ryan has a district like that still and his constituents can still pretend to be great liberals and humanitarians and never have to live it day to day.
As a former WI Gov. said, “Madison is an island of insanity in a sea of reality”