Results I: Ethnographic Observations

This chapter elaborates on general trends relating to the local culture and attitudes, including different perceived cultural regions within the county and the Midwest, ancestral heritage, as well as stereotypes relating to (central) Wisconsinites themselves. A description of these themes is included not only to get a sense of the place and its people, but also because culture and language are inseparably interconnected and these aspects will, thus, reemerge repeatedly throughout this book.