WI's very red "WOW" counties outside Milwaukee are no longer a deep red bloc as some suburbs, esp. along MKE county line, grow more purple, like Mequon below Cedarburg (above Mequon) became 1st "WOW" community to vote Dem for pres since 1996 1/4
story: https://bit.ly/3kPUpcX 
This is how Waukesha, Ozaukee and Waukesha have trended in pres. voting (see below) They were the 3 most Republican counties in WI from 1992 to 2012. In 2020, Washington was 4th, Waukesha was 32nd and Ozaukee was 49th (by GOP point margin) 2/4
For 40+ years, voting gap between blue MKE and red WOW widened with every pres election, making metro MKE arguably most polarized large metro in US, per 2014 stories here: https://bit.ly/2URi4Py 
2012 map below
but that gap has narrowed in Trump elections of 2016 and 2020 3/4
Now the suburbs within the Republican WOW counties are separating from each other and sorting into very red places on the periphery and increasingly purple places that are some combo of: closer to MKE, more populous, have more college grads, or wealthier. 4/4
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