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I’d say the Wisconsinite Jordan Stolz, the speedskating dynamo who has already won Olympic record gold in the 1,000 meter and 500 meter races.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
Hovde insists he’s a Wisconsinite down to the tips of his toes, which he sank not long ago into Madison’s frozen Lake Mendota.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2024
Ellen Christenson, a 69-year-old Wisconsinite, said she voted for former President Barack Obama twice before backing Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee, in 2016.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2023
As one 29-year-old Wisconsinite recently told NPR, “the people that find it hardest to vote are young people and minority voters.”
From Slate • Nov. 2, 2022
During the 2011 demonstrations, he wrote a dispatch for The New Yorker that mentioned a quintessentially Wisconsinite protest sign: “Let’s Be Reasonable. Hyperbole Hurts Everyone’s Cause.”
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2018
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