On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, SA wrote:
> You're overlooking a crucial difference. In the Midwest industrial states,
> union density
I'm not overlooking that at all. But you originally wrote as if (or appeared to be writing as if?) the rise in hegemony was a mystery. Put in these terms, it wouldn't be a mystery at all. You would simply be saying that unions, for all their faults, are a counterhegemonic institution, and now that they are a shadow of their former extent, there is proportionately less counterhegemony.
Michael