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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
It's not just Chicago vs. the rest of Illinois. The urban/rural divide is evident in pretty much every state. Austin is certainly out of tune with the rest of Texas. Atlanta with the rest of Georgia. Virginia trended away from being a red state because of the growth of the DC suburbs where so many suckle on the government teat.
Didn't another eastern Oregon county recently join with the movement to secede from the Portland-dominated west?
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Believe you're right about this last item; can't recall which one.
WI is the same way as most other states, where often a couple of metro-hives will somewhat drive policy directions. Milwaukee proper, and Dane Country (Madison), are the 2 main bastions of far-left to full-on Marxist thought. In a town that has a UW campus branch the conservative voice is that much diluted. The rest of the state is pretty red. Fickle - elect Scott Walker 3 times, but go nationally for Obama twice. To the topic, some cities in WI view everything in policing as solving a tactical problem. Others like my town < 10K has a PD that view themselves as largely "Peace Officers" - the difference in attitude is stark in the relationships between the citizenry and their police.