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A Rochester Democrat and Chronicle story on local Tea Partiers quotes Phillips Stevens, Jr., associate professor anthropology. Stevens said it is not unusual for groups like the Tea Party to form during economic downturns and interest in protests groups decline after people become more comfortable in their own lives.
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