[lbo-talk] Wisconsin politics - Rogers clarifies

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon May 2 09:19:18 PDT 2011


On May 1, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:


> 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.

I asked Joel Rogers about that. His response (the first sentence is his reaction to my question about whether they were a new addition to his old model):


> New new new. Certainly not rural. More just upwardly striving (above their class, not with it) deracinated pig suburbanites, part of a much broader and familiar phenomenon, and easily assimilated to traditional reactionary Babbitry

Doug



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