Noted: In 2007, Katherine Cramer began visiting Wisconsin’s small towns and listening to the conversations people were having. Cramer, director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service and professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the nation’s changing demographics and a globalized, more high-tech economy have left many in mostly white, small towns feeling left out. That’s how Wisconsin and other Midwestern states that were projected to be part of Clinton’s firewall flipped to Republican.
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