On May 2, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On May 2, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
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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?
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> 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.
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> Doug