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Middle America: A Family Farm’s Demise, a Democracy’s Decline

Just before the holidays, a Wisconsin state news outlet called Up North News carried a sad story: The family dairy farm where Robert M. La Follette, the great progressive politician and founder of this magazine, grew up was shutting down. The farm’s mi…

Just before the holidays, a Wisconsin state news outlet called Up North News carried a sad story: The family dairy farm where Robert M. La Follette, the great progressive politician and founder of this magazine, grew up was shutting down. The farm’s milk cows were put up for auction on December 16.


This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Ruth Conniff.


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