CQ Voting Studies are an annual analysis of a member's support or opposition to a given position. Interest Group Ratings are based on rankings from groups chosen to represent liberal, conservative, business and labor viewpoints.Voting Participation scores are based on the number of times a member voted "yea" or "nay" on roll call votes (not including quorum calls in the House). CQ Vote Studies Year Presidential Support Party Unity   S* O* S O 1998 88% 11% 93% 7% 1997 84 16 91 9 1996 86 14 89 11 1995 81 17 88 12 1994 74 22 89 9 1993 77 23 93 7 S=Support; O=Oppose
Voting Participation Year % 1998 99 1997 99 1996 99 1995 99 1994 98 1993 99	Interest Groups Year ADA AFL-CIO CCUS ACU 1998 95% n/a 17% 4 % 1997 90 100 40 20 1996 85 91 25 5 1995 90 100 29 12 1994 90 89 58 0 1993 90 92 27 13
Note on Interest Groups: ADA=Americans for Democratic Action; AFL-CIO=American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations; CCUS=Chamber of Commerce of the United States; ACU=American Conservative Union

WISCONSIN 5 : Northern Milwaukee, Milwaukee County suburbs

The compact 5th takes in Milwaukee's North Side and its suburbs. The district encompasses most of the city's traditional German neighborhoods, its black neighborhoods and the affluent East Side.

The northern half of Milwaukee County had long been defined by the beer breweries that are now largely gone, but in the state's most densely populated district, heavy manufacturing helped keep the 5th's blue-collar base.

Both the richest and poorest Wisconsinites live in the 5th, which remains one of the nation's most racially segregated areas. Mansions on Lake Michigan's shore have little in common with the inner-city African-American neighborhoods with double-digit unemployment. The county's decrease in population since 1990 - the only decrease in the state - came from residents moving from the heart of Milwaukee to the middle-class suburbs north and west of the city.

Overall, the 5th is solidly Democratic and draws support from its substantial Democratic base of union workers and inner-city minorities. In recent years, Democratic federal candidates have won with large majorities. Republicans entice a modicum of support from the well-to-do northeastern shore and western suburbs.

Major Industry
Heavy manufacturing, education, service

Population
543,607 (1990)

Cities
Milwaukee (pt.), 425,921 (1990); Wauwatosa, 46,759; Glendale, 13,646 (1996)

People
100% urban; 13% age 65+ (ranks sixth of nine in state; middle third nationally); 41% married couples, 18% married couples with children; 24% college educated (ranks second of nine in state; top third nationally); 62% white collar (ranks first of nine in state; top third nationally), 24% blue collar (ranks eighth of nine in state; middle third nationally) (1990)

Race
61% white, 35% black, 2% Asian; 2% Hispanic origin (1990)

Median Household Income
$26,267 (ranks seventh of nine in state; middle third nationally) (1990)

Unusual Features
Home to Harley-Davidson; Last district in the nation to elect a Socialist Party member - Victor L. Berger, (1911-13, 1923-29); C. Latham Sholes invented the typewriter here; Schlitz, "the beer that made Milwaukee famous," closed its Milwaukee brewery in 1981.

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