On May 2, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>>> 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?
Not fron that text. Traditional reactionary Babbitry already existed - the aspirational suburbanites were easily assimilated to it. Or so he says, and I have every reason to believe him since he's a smart fellow.
Doug