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

by Arlie Russell Hochschild

For governor of Louisiana, the Arenos had twice voted for Bobby Jindal on grounds of faith and family values. Jindal wasn’t for cleaning up the environment, however. In remarks to the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank, he had said that emissions regulations and environmental protections were a way President Obama was “holding our economy hostage to their radical ideas.” In 2014 Jindal had also given $1.6 billion to industry as “incentives” to invest in Louisiana—$394 per citizen of Louisiana—while simultaneously cutting about the same amount out of the state budget and laying off 30,000 public sector workers—among them nurses, nurse’s aides, medical technicians, public school teachers, and safety inspectors.