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Despair And Indignation Among The American White Working Class - Arlie Hochschild

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Red State Paradox

There was some hesitance, prejudice, bad experience that they associated with federal government as Southerners. There was a sense that states and governments don't do what we pay them to do. And I came to understand why in Louisiana, it's an oil state. It's a bought state. In fact, the big CEOs of the petrochemical industries do buy or are themselves the legislators in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. So people felt cynical and thought of the federal government as just a bigger, better version of state government.

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