Why red states depend on and distrust government the most

Mindy · 11-02-2016, 04:25 AM

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Published on Nov 1, 2016
Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild set out to explore what she saw as a paradox in American political life: red states depend the most on the federal government, but also distrust it the most. It’s the topic of her new book, “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right,” for which she traveled to Louisiana to research the phenomenon. She sits down with Jeffrey Brown.

ive always wondered why they hate

Chula Vista · 11-02-2016, 12:45 PM

Ignorance? Stupidity? Too much moonshine?

**Frownland** · 11-02-2016, 12:54 PM

Not very surprising that someone who deals with an untrustworthy entity more often will trust it less than someone who is less exposed to it.

Mindy · 11-07-2016, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Ignorance? Stupidity? Too much moonshine?

could be...

could just be the media they watch?

11-02-2016, 12:45 PM	#2 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Ignorance? Stupidity? Too much moonshine? __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

11-02-2016, 12:54 PM	#3 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Not very surprising that someone who deals with an untrustworthy entity more often will trust it less than someone who is less exposed to it. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x