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In reply to the discussion: Teamsters Endorse Greg Abbott (Ugh) [View all]

TBF

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5. When I was growing up in Wisconsin there were a lot of factories -
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and many of our dads belonged to unions. Wisconsin has always been a mixed bag of progressives (some labor, the universities, and urban Milwaukee), and also conservatives (birthplace of the republican party - Ripon, WI).

They not only voted for Reagan, but they also blamed Clinton for NAFTA (ignoring the fact that NAFTA was a bipartisan bill started by none other than Reagan and eventually passed during Clinton's term).

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