When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's recall was defeated, some good friends expressed their relief that now they wouldn't have to leave Wisconsin and move to Tennessee. My reaction was that they didn't have to move to a poor southern state because Walker and his Koch Brother cronies were going to do their best to turn Wisconsin into one.
Much of what has happened has borne that out. Their ridiculous mining law would make Mississippi proud. But the most telling development to date is the passage of their racist voting law, trying their best to keep what they regard as the wrong kinds of voters away from the polls. Jim Crow may have been invented in the south but it is alive and well in Wisconsin.
I am very sad for my home state.
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