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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 12:27 PM
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Are you a life-long Wisconsinite, recent transplant, somewhere in between?
I'm just curious how many of us got to be here.

I grew up in Illinois, but went to college in Beloit, 1993-1997, then landed a job in Racine after graduation. I've been in Wisconsin full-time since August 1997, and in the city of Milwaukee since 2004.

You?
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 12:32 PM
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1. Lifelong.
My father's family emigrated from Denmark in the period between about 1871 and 1891. They homesteaded in South Dakota before moving to Wisconsin in 1910.

My mother's family, ethnically German and Austrian, settled in Wisconsin before WW I, not sure of the exact date.
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charmay Donating Member (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 06:17 PM
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12. Lifelong
Born in southern WI, but now live in northwest WI.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 07:01 PM
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13. Hey, welcome Charmay.
I'm originally from Hayward, now on an old farm near Chippewa Falls.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 12:34 PM
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2. Not lifelong, but 53 out of 58 years is a lot. n/t
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Greybnk48 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 12:37 PM
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3. 50 out of 62 years
with a couple of years out of state as a Coast Guard wife during Viet Nam (Alaska and New Jersey) I'm originally from PA (Philadelphia area--Philly, Catasauqua and Levittown) Moved here at 12 y/o.
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 12:39 PM
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4. Life long
born in Kenosha, lived in Oak Creek for a while too.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-10-11 11:15 PM
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23. Also born in Kenosha
now residing in another state while dreaming of a day I can move back home.
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 09:20 AM
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27. We'd love ot have you back!
:hi:
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 09:39 PM
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33. I'd love to be back
but the pesky court order says I have to keep my child in Missouri until she's old enough to make her own decision-at age thirteen. She's already decided she wants to move, even though she's never lived there.

I hope it happens in a few more years.
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GillesDeleuze Donating Member (841 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 01:06 PM
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5. lifelong wi, appleton to madison
wont be leaving for a long time.
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sybylla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 01:13 PM
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6. Lifelong - 6 generations at least.
Ancestor, Nicholas Perrot, came through Wisconsin with Marquette and Joliet on their journey to discover the Mississippi. He returned at the end of the 1600's for several years as commander of the trading post at "Fort La Baye." But the family didn't come to settle here for several more generations, Building farms on logged-off land in central Wisconsin as some of the area's first settlers about 1865. My cousins founded the town where I was born.

Two sets of Great, great, great grandparents came to Washington County from Germany about 1851.

Several other branches from Switzerland between 1849 and 1910 and from Ohio in 1860 to settle in Green County.

I've lived in several communities across the state, north and south. There are very few things I don't absolutely love about this state.
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 02:00 PM
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7. Born in Milwaukee, moved to Chicago when I was 15 for 14 years, back for 10.
Edited on Fri Apr-08-11 02:02 PM by PeaceNikki
Now a decade-long Waukesha County Democrat. :)
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cognoscere Donating Member (381 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 02:24 PM
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8. A transplanted Chicagoan for the last fifty years. N/T
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MoDupey Donating Member (42 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 02:47 PM
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9. Born
In Barron WI. Lived in Gleenwood,Menomonie, then moved to St.Paul when I was 11. When I was was old enough to leave the nest, I went right back to sconi (Spring Valley). Love it here.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 07:05 PM
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14. That's great country over there, all the hills & ridges.
And welcome to DU. Hope you enjoy this place.
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 02:51 PM
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10. 37 out of....
okay.....more than half my life in Wisconsin...there...take that
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TxVietVet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 02:56 PM
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11. Born and raised in Texas. Worked in Wisconsin for over 20 years.
I supported and voted for Democratic candidates in Wisconsin in every election. I worked in quiet a few Wisconsin counties, all of SE Wisconsin.
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alterfurz Donating Member (723 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-09-11 08:03 AM
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15. born & first 9 in Milwaukee, Waukesha 9, Madison 46
Take it from one who endured adolescence there: Nothing good ever happens in Walkersha(sic) County. Its 73-27 Prosser-Kloppenburg vote percentage exactly reverse mirrors Dane County--just what you'd expect from Dane's evil doppelgänger!
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-09-11 08:19 AM
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16. There are a lot of good things, people and places in Waukesha.
And I won't be "run out" of my home because I disagree with the political leanings of the county. Thankfully most people don't do that. Life would be boring and dumb and the divisiveness would be even greater.
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alterfurz Donating Member (723 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-09-11 09:36 AM
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17. sorry, please don't take it personally
Ultra-conservative Waukesha was hellish for an adolescent who was "different." My life didn't start until I got to Madison, YMMV!
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-09-11 09:42 AM
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18. Sorry, there's been a lot of shit flung in our direction the last few days.
Edited on Sat Apr-09-11 09:48 AM by PeaceNikki
Especially here on DU. I understand that it's not for everyone. I also understand wanting to be surrounded by people who think more like you do. There are days I curse it, but my home is here, my job is here and I am surrounded by beautiful lakes and Ice Age Trails to explore. :)

I'm glad you found a home in Madison. It's an AMAZING community and it's cool that the nation has gotten a glimpse of its awesomeness these past few months.
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-09-11 10:22 AM
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19. Transplant to Madison about 4.5 years.
out of - uh - a lot more!

Came here from North Carolina (RTP area).
High school/college in KY
Elementary school in south Alabama
Early years - Macon, GA


Madison is amazing. Except for the @@&*($#(* winters!! :rofl:

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Kashka-Kat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-09-11 09:48 PM
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20. Badger born and bred
Edited on Sat Apr-09-11 09:51 PM by Kashka-Kat
Born in Milw, lived in Madison a gazillion years ago - we used to buy our eggs at a farm where Westgate Mall is now located. Used to be able to swim in the lakes. Used to be able to go in up higher in the Capitol, up to the very tippy top.

The thing about growing up in Wisconsin: in history class we got WISCONSIN history. Learned about Progressive Party, Fighting Bob, socialist mayors, all the New Deal innovations that began here, the strong labor history and the fact that so many of us had parents who were in a union and grandparents who actually fought some of the early battles. Wis used to have a reputation for clean honest government and repubs and dems working together. I think that might explain why so many of us are SO completely incensed by the national rad right coming here and imposing its barbarian ways on us - with no regard for our history or traditions or how we've done things for 100 yrs. .


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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-10-11 11:22 PM
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24. I remember learning quite a bit
about Wisconsin history in the fourth grade. Included in the teachings were field trips to Madison and to a place called Old World Wisconsin.

I had learned so much about history before I moved to another state. When we moved I remember my new teacher making a comment about how far ahead I was in all of my subjects and she asked me where I attended school. When I said that I was from Wisconsin she said "That figures".

What I learned there was above and beyond what I learned in the other states I lived in.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-10-11 12:45 AM
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21. Not a Wisconsite, but close ties. Lived in Winneconne for 1.5 years
when I was 11 and 12, after my first 11 in Iowa. Then, back to Illinois, then bouncing back forth between IL and IA. But my parents moved to West Bend when I was in grad school in Boston. My mom died there 5 years ago, but dad still lives there. He recently pointed out that this is the longest he's lived any one place--26 years now. It's home for him, so I feel connected to it as well.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-10-11 06:48 AM
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22. One of those old FIBs
Edited on Sun Apr-10-11 06:48 AM by HereSince1628
Who is a Bears and Cubs fan, who I still thinks of the Braves as a Milwaukee team

I relocated the center of my universe here in 1988.





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Papillon Donating Member (420 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 01:00 AM
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25. I was born in Rice Lake

and lived there until the second grade. My parents moved us to Superior and then to Bruce. Our final move was to Washington State when I was in the sixth grade and I've been here ever since. I still have warm feelings for Wisconsin and have relatives in Chippewa Falls, Eau Clair, Menomonie, and Rice Lake.

In 1992, two years before my mother passed away, she took my two sisters and me back to Wisconsin for two weeks and we had a great time visiting all the relatives. I remember a church picnic we went to which had a bingo game going and the bingo prize was six packs of beer. They had cases stacked up in a covered area. I didn't win any.
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Viking12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 07:00 AM
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26. Moved here from MN in 2003.
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Pharaoh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 02:15 PM
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28. Madison Born and raised
still here!
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 02:31 PM
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29. I moved to Madison from Chicago in June 2000.
I had to come to Madison 15 times during the Winter of '99-'00 to visit the UW School of Veterinary Medicine for my dogs cancer treatments. They cured his cancer and he lived until July 2008 (age 15).
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 04:36 PM
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30. Born here, raised here, spent 48 of 62 years here. n/t
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 07:04 PM
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31. Lifelong but for 7 years in Vegas
Born in Vilas County, currently living in Outagamie.

I have the accent to prove it. And the German prepositions: "Yah, we're goin' over by her house once."
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 07:28 PM
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32. I know, hey?
:)
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Goblinmonger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 09:41 PM
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34. Born and raised in North Dakota
Came to Oshkosh in 1993 to teach at UWO. Stopped that gig in 1998 but stuck around.
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Jimbo S Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 10:29 PM
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35. Born in Madison
Been in the Milwaukee area post-college. Currently, live in Waukesha. Quite the role reversal, isn't it?
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54anickel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-11 12:10 PM
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36. Life-long. My family immigrated to Waukesha from Indonesia via the Netherlands 1 year before I was
Edited on Tue Apr-12-11 12:24 PM by 54anickel
born. I was the only American citizen in the family until my parents completed the citizenship process when I was 6 or 7. I remember that day was a really big deal to our all of our friends - huge party after the trip to the Federal Courthouse.
Funny, one of my nieces is now studying in, and hoping to emigrate back to Europe. As much as he disliked his homeland of the Netherlands, I believe my dad would be right behind her if he were still alive.
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