I now know more about small towns in WI than I ever wanted or needed to, & for all the wrong reasons

[MoonRiver]

[Tetrachloride]

1. Here's a sample of something good

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Recording_Angel

The Recording Angel
Waupun, Wisconsin

[ShazamIam]

2. People forget WI is home to the John Birch Society and was home to Joe McCarthy.

[Poiuyt]

7. Both in Appleton, which BTW, isn't really conservative

There are two universities here that keep diversity of thought at the forefront.

[Luciferous]

15. Don't forget Ripon, birthplace of the Republican party.

[captain queeg]

3. I used to have a more positive view of Wisconsin.

I had a sister who lived there years ago and I visited a few times. Seemed like a nice place in the 70s and 80s. I think a lot of the Blues Brothers was filmed there. (Not the nazis, they were supposed to be from Illinois or Indiana I think)

[Archae]

4. It still is a decent place, depending on where you live.

I live in Sheboygan, where it's fairly quiet, a few things have gone awry at times, including a murder recently down at the Bus Depot, that was the result of a Milwaukee thug getting into a fight.

The "People's Republic Of Madison" isn't so quiet, as is Milwaukee.

Not to mention Green Bay.

McCarthy has been dead since 1958.

The John Birch Society might as well not even exist, outside of that stupid magazine they crank out, they are for all intensive purposes irrelevant.

[JHB]

6. Would I be out of order to comment...

...that the phrase is "all intents and purposes", not "all intensive purposes"?

[hfojvt]

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[ShazamIam]

17. After the Birchers disgraced themselves by calling Eisenhower a world commie leader, the Heritage

Foundation was created by Birchers Joe Coors (the money) Ed Feulner and Paul Weyrich in 1970 and quickly became the heart of what has become the Republican party. The elders kept the original org going.

[LakeArenal]

5. It's 47% Dem and 47% Repukes.

Blue on state wide and national elections.

State elections ruined by gerrymandering.

Kenosha is an awful place for Dems. As is Waukesha.

[ShazamIam]

18. Wisconsin Republicand disenfranchise a goodly percentage of Dem voters with their "free," voter ID

that seems very hard to obtain in reality, though I have only read about it and have not experienced it.

[LeftInTX]

8. One scene was filmed in Wisconsin

Probably because they needed a specific shot.

The rest was filmed in Illinois.

[mockmonkey]

12. Road Construction Ahead...

That's where the Milwaukee scene begins. When the Bluesmobile drives backward from the edge of the road and flips the First Wisconsin building is the big give-a-way. The building is called something else now. The Pinto is dropped in Chicago. So not that much was filmed in Wisconsin.

[LeftInTX]

13. The first time I saw that, I was like, "Hey did they go to Milwaukee?"

[hfojvt]

9. What small towns?

Do you consider Kenosha and Waukesha to be small towns?
Kenosha - almost 100,000 people
Waukesha - 72,000 people

Small towns?? Really?

What do you know about Richland Center, Spring Green (both connected to Frank Lloyd Wright), Baraboo, Waunakee (the world's only), Dodgeville, Mazomanie, Sparta, Tomah, Hillsboro.
What about Waterloo (home of Trek bicycles)
or Millville (home of Clifford D. Simak)

[UTUSN]

11. K& big R#5

[raccoon]

14. Yeah, and it's the same for the other 49 states.

There are psychos, murderers, magats, in every state.

[Luciferous]

16. Neither of the towns that have been in the news recently are small.

[GusBob]

19. Do tell us what you know now

What have you learned?

Do small Wisco towns have more bars than churches or vice verse? Or is it a tie?