Colin,
I was born and raised in Milwaukee and lived there most of my adult life.
When I was a kid back in the ’50’s and 60’s I don’t think there could have been a better place to live and grow up in. It was clean, safe, prosperous and everyone had good jobs and the quality of education was exceedingly high. It was “the machine capitol of the world”.
Milwaukee, and all of Wisconsin, has always had a strong socialist/progressive inclination. Social welfare was a high priority in Wisconsin and benefits were quite liberal. As a consequence, literal hordes of Black welfare recipients streamed North from Chicago to take advantage of them.
Many of them received welfare checks in both States simultaneously. The more illegitimate children you had, the bigger your welfare check from the State.
Along with their sloth and indolence they brought crime and violence. White flight set in and gorgeous neighborhoods that were the pride of the middle class were relinquished to these violent, savages. Today, Milwaukee is 50% Black and only a sad vestige of its former glory.
