Sauk County WI makes NY Times - "In Rural Wisconsin, Race Is an Undercurrent of the Presidential Election"

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Gifted: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/elections/election-race-issues-baraboo-wisconsin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk4.Dy8y.JWo7-s6id9b0&smid=url-share


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Sauk County, which is mostly white with a small but growing nonwhite population, has been roiled by its own racial skirmishes in recent years.
This summer, a county board meeting turned hostile over worries that refugees might someday settle nearby.

In May, at a high school graduation ceremony, a white parent rushed the stage to shove aside a Black school superintendent.

A few years earlier, a photo circulated of local boys standing on the courthouse steps making gestures tied to the white power movement.

Now, in the weeks since Ms. Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, replaced President Biden on the Democratic ticket, Mr. Trump has employed a new line of attack, questioning whether his opponent is truly Black and labeling her as a “D.E.I. candidate.” In Sauk County, some residents side with the former president. Others say the remarks are racist.

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[AllyCat]

1. Right next door to liberal Dane County.

Many people who work in Madison or the surrounding areas live there and their kids go to school there. It is astonishing to me that this kind of racism is so prevalent with that kind of demographic.

But, people want to be sure they die white I guess.

[LiberalFighter]

2. I hope those incidents are not that prevalent.

The high school graduation incident I believe was in Baraboo. I was born there. I spent about six years in Rock Springs before moving up north and down to Janesville. Then out of state.