There is a perception that those who support the Occupy Wall Street protests are of a particular persuasion: patchouli-crusted recent Wesleyan grads who tap on Macbooks while groaning about "corporations." While waiting for yesterday's galvanizing appearance that never came, we stopped 13 people to try to understand why they were in Zuccotti Park amongst the protestors.
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