A mill town situated at the mouth of the Fox River in northeast Wisconsin, Green Bay was, in the late 1950s, predominately white, Catholic, conservatively Democratic, and, with sixty-two thousand residents, vastly smaller than America’s urban centers. But the Packers’ hometown had a lot going for it—four paper mills, three rail hubs, good schools, tidy parks, and a traffic-clogged downtown lined with restaurants, clubs, and department stores.
