I wish I thought I could do that justice.
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:11 PM, martin schiller <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
> I think it would be generous of someone to throw up a quick wiki entry for
> 'traditional reactionary babbittry'.
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> 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?
> >
> > 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
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