Strangers In Their Own Land

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Strangers In Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild, 2016

I read this in June 2017

I found it fascinating that so many people could hold beliefs so detrimental to their own self interest but overall the book didn't change my opinion of right wing people. It also brought back some bad memories of my early experiences in the Navy where as a 18 year old kid I was thrown into a situation where most of the other white people were extremely racists southern rednecks that wallowed in their ignorance. Kind of like a lot of the people in the book.

But I did enjoy reading this book. It was an important perspective.