A story on the front page of Friday's Daily (On deck: Which state's up next?) incorrectly stated that Wisconsin might be the next target for an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative. Wisconsin does not allow citizen ballot initiatives. Any affirmative action ban there would have to originate in the state Legislature. (Correction appended 11/13/06)

After winning a campaign to ban affirmative action in Michigan on Tuesday despite being outspent at least 3-to-1, anti-affirmative action crusaders are searching for their next target.

Ward Connerly - a California businessman whose American Civil Rights Institute backed Proposal 2 as well as similar measures in California and Washington - said he is considering bringing anti-affirmative action ballot initiatives to Illinois, Missouri and Oregon, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Connerly's group donated more than $700,000 to the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, the group that campaigned for the proposal.

Jennifer Pae, president of the United States Student Association, a Washington-based group that lobbies for affirmative action programs and against tuition hikes, said she's heard from other higher-education leaders that affirmative action opponents may zero in on Wisconsin next.

Pae said that after the Supreme Court upheld the consideration of race in college admissions in 2003, groups like Connerly's American Civil Rights Institute had to take a new approach to eliminating the use of race and gender-based preferences by public institutions.

"The only viable way for them to eliminate affirmative action is through a state-by-state ballot initiative," Pae said.

The proposal, which passed with just under 58 percent Tuesday in Democratic-leaning Michigan, has fired up conservatives around the country.

Phi Beta Cons, a blog about higher education on the website of the conservative magazine the National Review, was filled with posts yesterday celebrating the ballot initiative's passage and condemning University President Mary Sue Coleman's vows to fight its implementation.

On another blog on the site, commentator Stanley Kurtz called on readers to donate to the Center for Individual Rights, the group that fought to keep Proposal 2 on the ballot.

"Right now, conservatives have the momentum on this issue," Kurtz wrote on the blog. "But we're badly out-funded and undermanned."

The Universities of California, Washington, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin all have one thing in common - their flagship campuses are all found in the top 50 on U.S. News and World Report's ranking of top colleges and universities.

By targeting states with more selective public universities, activists seem to be hoping to play off of voters' anger and nervousness about their children's admission chances.

LSA junior Ryan Fantuzzi, co-chair of the Washtenaw County MCRI, said Connerly joked with supporters at the group's victory party about trying to pass a similar proposal somewhere else.

Fantuzzi said if Connerly does continue his crusade in other states, he would probably be on board.

Jennifer Gratz, MCRI executive director and plaintiff in one of the Supreme Court lawsuits that challenged the University's admissions policy in 2003, will be joining her family in California after spending much of her time in Michigan campaigning for Proposal 2 over the past year, Fantuzzi said.