Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

by Arlie Russell Hochschild

the more that people confine themselves to like-minded company, the more extreme their views become.

New Englanders tend to believe in good government for the “common good.” Appalachians and Texans tend to be freedom-loving government minimalists.

Tracing their roots to a caste system, whites in Dixie states treasure local control and resist federal power—

different priorities on obedience to authority (the right) and originality (the left),

The right seeks release from liberal notions of what they should

“deep story,” a story that feels as if it were true.

the anti-government right, who think of differences of class and race as matters of personal character.

Limbaugh was a firewall against liberal insults thrown at her and her ancestors,

Tea Party adherents seemed to arrive at their dislike of the federal government via three routes—through their religious faith (the government curtailed the church, they felt), through hatred of taxes (which they saw as too high and too progressive), and through its impact on their loss of honor,

People on the right seemed to be strongly moved by three concerns—taxes, faith, and honor.

the choice was between the environment and jobs.

structural amnesia

they overregulate the bottom because it’s harder to regulate the top.”

What he felt was being given away was tax money to non-working, non-deserving people—

not just tax money, but honor too.

this rift between deserving taxpayers and undeserving tax money takers,

captives of a psychological program.”

white masculine pursuits—are fairly unregulated. But for women and black men, regulation is greater.

no talk about freedom from

our distance from necessity tends to confer honor.

culture of endurance and adaptation;

focus more on a person’s moral strength to endure than on the will to change the circumstances

Fox News stokes fear.