>
> On May 1, 2011, at 1:09 PM, // ravi wrote:
>
>
> Joel Rogers explains Wisconsin politics as a struggle between an urban,
> social democratic base in Milwaukee and Madison allied with "progressive"
> capital-intensive dairy farmers against a very right-wing rural population
> (ex the dairy farmers). They're about even in numbers, therefore the swings
> back & forth by small margins.
>
>
So the conservatives in Waukesha County are actually the outliers in that
understanding. But it's surely the outliers here that fund the right-wing
side of the struggle.
j