What's the Matter with Louisiana?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 26, 2016

Arlie Hochschild, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (New Press, 2016) 1620972255, traveled to rural Louisiana to search for the answer to why the people most helped by strong governments join movements like the anti-tax Tea Party or support businessman/candidate Donald Trump.

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