[lbo-talk] Wisconsin politics - Rogers clarifies

Jeffrey Fisher jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
Mon May 2 15:36:59 PDT 2011


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> 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
>
>
Interesting. So if I follow this correctly, he's saying traditional reactionary Babbitry is a new (or at least new-ish) thing in Wisconsin. Yes?

j



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