I’ve been living here since 1984 and I’ve never heard of “Wisconsin nice.” Maybe you need to go “out-state” to hear about it, or maybe only out-of-staters look at us and say that. Maybe the truly nice people don’t think of themselves as nice. It’s just the way they are.
I don’t include myself. I didn’t grow up in Wisconsin, and I don’t see why I would have picked up any niceness by living in Madison as an adult. Niceness needs to be more deeply ingrained. I grew up in Delaware, where people seemed normal to me. I went back recently and was stunned by how surly people were! Proof of Wisconsin nice? Perhaps. I don’t know. I’m a stranger here and in Delaware now too.
I added a paragraph break. Was that a mis-editing of Ann Althouse?
I’m asking questions. Am I starting to pick up her blogging techniques? Is this medium a good match to the Socratic method?
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