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

by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Appendix A: The Research Appendix

The poorer the state, research found, the less regulated it was likely to be. So were poor people in poor states less likely to worry about out-of-state profit “leakage” or state handouts to industry? Or were they understandably just hoping for a job and preparing to endure?

Tje poorer the less power they have too

But I saw no hint of such a debate in my encounters with evangelical believers. Word from the Lake Charles pulpits seemed to focus more on a person’s moral strength to endure than on the will to change the circumstances that called on that strength.

How much of this is about mantaining peace ... Supporting the powerful status quo.. maintaining the proper balance. Need reread Gaventa Power and powerlessness…