And finally tonight some domestic politics

A look at the intensifying clash

between red and blue America

Few places reflect the growing political chasm as

does the state of Wisconsin

and in particular

metropolitan Milwaukee-

home to an engaged electorate

and deep racial, social, and
economic divisions.

Gwen traveled there this past week...

50 years ago we had that battle

Why are we fighting it again?

Lifelong Milwaukee resident Earl Ingram

lives on one side of the divide

Earl Ingram: Wisconsin has had
a terrible history

like many other states, in this

in this country

of not being fair when it comes
to people of color.

Not just here, but across the nation.

With the conservative reality

that has come back.

Keith Best, who left the city
for the suburbs

in his 30s

lives on the other.

Keith Best: I saw our jobs 
were leaving,

I saw our taxes were going up.

and I saw the school system was failing.

And that's why I moved on to Waukesha

Best and Igram are from essentially

the same place--

Battleground, Wisconsin--

minutes away from one another in distance,

but miles away in their politics.

In Milwaukee's neighborhood named Coffee
Coffe Makes you black

the topic was how to curb the neighborhood violence.

Thirty children have been shoot in the city
only this year.

It is politics it takes
it takes every single resource

that we have not out of not on te
rigt here in Milwaukee

By contract, the republican Congressman
James S Community own all a few miles away

the hot topic was immigration.

I believe there is no only humanitarian crisis, 
but it is a national security crisis.

The audience-- black and white, 
Democrats and Republicans,

urban and suburban,

reflects a sober truth.

Residents of Metropolitan Milwaukee, 
once home to independent thinkers,

no longer view the world through the same lens.

The City of Milvokee, its majority and minority,
56% of Black and Hispanic

But te minoity poulation in the surrounding
suburbs is somewhere in the single digits.

And here, in Southeastern Wisconsin,
it goes way beyond race--

to social, economic, and partisan segregation.

Milwaukee suburbs are almost reder than 
anywhere else outside of South.

who tracked Wisconsin's growing polarization
in the four-part series for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Said the split in 2012.

That is when effort to recall the Republican governor, 
Scott Walker,

draw the record partisan turnout
in the blue cities Milwaukee and Madison.

as well as in the red suburbs accoss
around both.

It is just do devisive! I mean it is all
about how you feel, how he has governed the state

over past four or fie years.
And every piece of evidence tat we have is that

it is almost right down the middle.

One example: Republicans give Walker
95% of approval rating.

ident ObamaAmong Democrates, Preso

It is just a tough situation. Good question. I can't answer that.

It could determine outcome for years.

HOw typical is this divide for the rest of the country.

In 1994, just 20 years ago, carrried