Divided Wisconsin: Partisan Spatial Electoral Realignment

Zaniewski, Kazimierz J.; Simmons, James R.

doi:10.1080/19338341.2016.1195764

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“…Political dynamics that became apparent during the civil rights era have continued, where the City of Milwaukee, including the Black and Hispanic downtown areas, as well as urban whites along Lake Michigan, are strongly Democratic. The suburbs, where many of the 19th and early 20th century industrial workers moved, lean Republican, and further away from the city, the State of Wisconsin is firmly red [ 27 ].…”

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Life in the Time of COVID-19: a Case Study of Community Health

Schelly

2021

J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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Introduction This report uses a present day global pandemic as a case study of health inequities that are best understood by considering the role of time and place. Method I provide a historical overview of Milwaukee, Wisconsin—one of the most segregated cities in the U.S.—to consider prior health disparities and social conditions. I then focus on COVID-19, tracking the monthly census tract distribution of cases for 6 months, including case and mortality data by race and class. Results As expected, Black and Hispanic majority census tracts are the most affected by COVID-19, with some communities experiencing nearly 1 positive case per 10 residents. In previous years, Blacks and Hispanics provided approximately 27% and 3% of the shares of “natural” deaths, respectively; their shares of COVID-19 deaths in the first 6 months of the pandemic were approximately 35% and 13%. On the contrary, the share of natural deaths for whites was approximately 65% in previous years and dropped to 47% for COVID-19 deaths. The average ages of COVID-19 deaths were 72.5 for Blacks, 61.3 for Hispanics, and 79.9 for whites. Conclusion The disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in Milwaukee cannot be separated from historical forces, including race-based politics that intensified during the Great Migration of African Americans from the Jim Crow South. The paper concludes by returning to the turn of the 19th century with a historical snapshot of Jane Addams, who lived a short distance south, in a time with conspicuous parallels to the COVID-19 crisis.

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Life in the Time of COVID-19: a Case Study of Community Health

Schelly

2021

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Divided Wisconsin: Partisan Spatial Electoral Realignment

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