Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan.

The region was controlled by the French Colonial Empire until getting annexed by the British Empire in the Seven Years’ War, was transferred to the United States as part of the Northwest Territory at the end of the American Revolution, and was granted full statehood in 1803.

The state legislature is currently controlled by the Republican Party, while its current governor is the Democrat Tony Evers.

Quotes

Woman: Merrill, I told you. We have to move back to Wisconsin!
- 2012 (2009), directed by Roland Emmerich.

One after another, countries such as Spain and Greece, states such as Wisconsin, Michigan, and Kansas, and American colonies such as Puerto Rico-are becoming laboratories for how much pain can be inflicted on a population for the purpose of satisfying creditors and ideologues.
- Amy Goodman Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

Wisconsin’s Eau Claire Area School District’s so-called gender-identity policy is a big middle finger to the basic principles of parental rights. Now a group of parents is fighting back in a case testing the limits of public education power: whether school districts can keep secrets about the children they are educating. …Eau Claire North High School drew national attention in 2022 after a staff member reportedly posted a sign on the school’s door declaring, “If Your Parents Aren’t Accepting Of Your Identity I’m Your Mom Now.”
- Matt D. Kittle, "‘I’m Your Mom Now’: Wisconsin Parents Take School Secrecy Policy On ‘Gender Identity’ To SCOTUS", The Federalist (June 6, 2024)

I am glad to be here in Wisconsin. I think that not only the people of Wisconsin, but the people of the country have a right to be proud of her development as a state, of what she has done, of the part she has taken in war, of the part she has taken in peace; and the people of Wisconsin and their development now also have a peculiar interest for every one concerned with trying to see what the American of the future is to be, because in Wisconsin one sees with unusual clearness the development of that American. He is going to be a man in whose blood flow streams from many different race strains.
- Theodore Roosevelt, Address to the Wisconsin Legislature in Madison Online, The American Presidency Project; 3 April 1903

Yes, on November 8, you Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, all the Blows get to go and blow up the whole goddamn system because it's your right. Trump's election is going to be the biggest "fuck you" ever recorded in human history and it will feel good — for a day. Maybe a week. Possibly a month. And then, like the Brits, who wanted to send a message, so they voted to leave Europe, only to find out that if you vote to leave Europe, you actually have to leave Europe. And now they regret it. All the Ohioans, Pennsylvanians, Michiganders, and Wisconsinites of Middle England, right, they all voted to leave and now they regret it. And over 4 million of them signed a petition to have a do-over, they want another election, but it's not going to happen. Because you used the ballot as an anger management tool. And now you're fucked. And the rest of Europe. They're like, "Bye Felicia!" So when the rightfully angry people of Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin find out after a few months in office that President Trump wasn't going to do a damn thing for them, it will be too late to do anything about it.
- Michael Moore, Michael Moore in TrumpLand (October 7, 2016)

Put you in a mansion, somewhere in Wiscansin.
- T-Pain, "Can't Believe It" (June 2008).

Mitt Romney and I both grew up in the heartland, and we know what places like Wisconsin and Michigan look like when times are good. We know what these communities look like when times are good -- when people are working, when families are doing more than just getting by. And we both know it can be that way again.
- Paul Ryan, Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

My name is John Johnson. I come from Wisconsin. I work as a lumberjack there.
- Folk rhyme of unknown origin. Reported in Shelley Harwayne, Lifetime Guarantees: Toward Ambitious Literacy Teaching (2000), p. 161.