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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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Okay, that's how it sounded, but then I don't understand what's new?
I'm sorry. I feel like I'm just not making obvious connections here. Blame it on end-of-semester brain meltdown.
j