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connection between tlie economic and tlie political life of a com- 

 mnnitj. It is, however, clear from tlie foregoing evidence that in 

 sontliwestern Wisconsin there are areas having a social and in- 

 dustrial life different from that in the neighboring to^vns. Just 

 what those differences are, how they have come about and what 

 their effect has been in the past are questions yet to be settled by 

 more detailed study than is now possible. The present discus- 

 sion has accomplished its purpose if it has called attention to 

 the ]30ssibilities of such historical work in purely local fields. 



