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> On May 1, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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):
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> > 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
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> Doug
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>
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