Noted: Marcy Carlson, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, basically warned me not to get all googly-eyed. She pointed out that the number of marriages has been close to 30,000 in the last couple of years, a rate of 5.3 per 1,000 Wisconsinites. And, from her point of view, one would expect more marriages when the state population goes up and the rate stays the same, as it has since 2009.
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