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In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking trip from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless confirms common floor and quickly warms to the people she fulfills, included in this a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by the sinkhole the effect of a drilling accident - people whose concerns are actually ones that Americans reveal: the desire to have community, the embrace of family, and hopes for his or her children. Strangers in Their Own Land should go beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own hobbies. Instead Hochschild confirms lives ripped apart by stagnant salary, a lack of home, an elusive American goal - and politics alternatives and views that produce sense in the framework with their lives. Hochschild draws on her behalf expert knowledge of the sociology of sentiment to help us understand what it feels as though to are in "red" America. Along the way she confirms answers to 1 of the key questions of modern-day American politics: Why do the people who would seem to gain most from "liberal" government intervention abhor the very idea? Cover image © Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Rate/MacGill Gallery, New York and Marc Selwyn ARTWORK, Los Angeles
