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> On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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> I don't follow your argument. Teabaggers are a small minority of the
>> working class people in the U. S. How is ridicule of that right-wing,
>> extremist minority group "deepseated contempt for working class people"?
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> It's not even clear how many are "working class." I suspect a lot are what
> we used to call petit bourgeois.
That's certainly the traditional constitutency for this sort of thing, at least.
I'm certainly willing to bet that the median teabagger is richer than the median D.C. resident, although not neccessarily the median D.C. metro rider.