Wisconsin

Wisconsinis aU.S. statelocated in the north-centralUnited States,in theMidwestandGreat Lakesregions. It is bordered byMinnesotato the west,Iowato the southwest,Illinoisto the south,Lake Michiganto the east,Michiganto the northeast, andLake Superiorto the north. The state capital isMadison,and its largest city isMilwaukee,which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan.

The region was controlled by theFrench Colonial Empireuntil getting annexed by theBritish Empirein theSeven Years’ War,was transferred to the United States as part of theNorthwest Territoryat the end of theAmerican Revolution,and was granted full statehood in 1803.

The state legislature is currently controlled by theRepublican Party,while its current governor is theDemocrat Tony Evers.

Quotes

Woman:Merrill, I told you. We have to move back to Wisconsin!
- 2012(2009), directed byRoland Emmerich.

One after another, countries such asSpainandGreece,states such as Wisconsin,Michigan,andKansas,andAmerican coloniessuch asPuerto Rico-are becoming laboratories for how much pain can be inflicted on a population for the purpose of satisfying creditors and ideologues.
- Amy GoodmanDemocracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

Wisconsin’sEau Claire Area School District’sso-called gender-identity policy is a big middle finger to the basicprinciplesof parentalrights.Now a group ofparentsis fighting back in a case testing the limits of public educationpower:whether school districts can keep secrets about the children they are educating.…Eau Claire North High School drew national attention in 2022 after a staff member reportedly posted a sign on the school’s door declaring, “If Your Parents Aren’t Accepting Of Your Identity I’m Your Mom Now.”
- Matt D. Kittle,"‘I’m Your Mom Now’: Wisconsin Parents Take School Secrecy Policy On ‘Gender Identity’ To SCOTUS",The Federalist(June 6, 2024)

I am glad to be here in Wisconsin. I think that not only the people of Wisconsin, but the people of the country have a right to be proud of her development as a state, of what she has done, of the part she has taken inwar,of the part she has taken inpeace;and the people of Wisconsin and their development now also have a peculiar interest for every one concerned with trying to see what the American of the future is to be, because in Wisconsin one sees with unusual clearness the development of that American. He is going to be a man in whose blood flow streams from many differentracestrains.
- Theodore Roosevelt,Address to the Wisconsin Legislature in Madison Online,The American Presidency Project; 3 April 1903

Yes, on November 8, you Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, all the Blows get to go and blow up the whole goddamn system because it's your right.Trump's election is going to be the biggest "fuck you" ever recorded in human history and it will feelgood— for a day. Maybe a week. Possibly a month. And then, like theBrits,who wanted to send a message, so theyvoted to leave Europe,only to find out that if you vote to leaveEurope,you actually have to leave Europe. And now they regret it. All theOhioans,Pennsylvanians,Michiganders,and Wisconsinites ofMiddle England,right, they all voted to leave and now they regret it. And over 4 million of them signed a petition to have a do-over, they want another election, but it's not going to happen. Because you used the ballot as an anger management tool. And now you're fucked. And the rest of Europe. They're like, "Bye Felicia!" So when the rightfully angry people of Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin find out after a few months in office that President Trump wasn't going to do a damn thing for them, it will be too late to do anything about it.
- Michael Moore,Michael Moore in TrumpLand(October 7, 2016)

Put you in a mansion, somewhere in Wiscansin.
- T-Pain,"Can't Believe It"(June 2008).

Mitt Romneyand I both grew up in the heartland, and we know what places like Wisconsin and Michigan look like when times are good. We know what these communities look like when times are good -- when people are working, when families are doing more than just getting by. And we both know it can be that way again.
- Paul Ryan,Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance,delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

My name is John Johnson. I come from Wisconsin. I work as a lumberjack there.
- Folk rhyme of unknown origin. Reported in Shelley Harwayne,Lifetime Guarantees: Toward Ambitious Literacy Teaching(2000), p. 161.