Although Whitewater is a larger city than some others in the county, nothing about her presence on a foreclosure list is auspicious.
If there’s even the slightest doubt that these last several years have been unfavorable for countless thousands in the county, perhaps another disappointing statistic will overturn years of empty boosterism.
See, Top Six Walworth County Communities for Foreclosures.
Whatever their errors (and they made many), at least the New Dealers cared about ordinary people, and described conditions honestly and starkly, to convey the seriousness of the problems ordinary people faced.
Better to see conditions as they are, so as to spur effective solutions, than to pretend all is well, while people languish unnoticed.