[lbo-talk] Suburban revolt against Obama?

[James Heartfield]

The plague of bird flu will erupt out of Java, not Suffolk
Mike Davis 
'The prospect of a new plague unleashed in the shantytowns of Lagos, Kinshasa or Nairobi, in other words, is virtually apocalyptic'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/feb/07/comment.politics1

Isn't this the old nineteenth century hysteria about disease emanating in the miasma of the poor ('residuum') - only here the fear of the urban disease is relocated onto the 'World of Slums'