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3 Reddit comments about Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right:

u/Hynjia · 4 pointsr/sociology

General sociology? Or...something specific...

Because I've read several sociology books that were rather interesting about specific issues (usually feminism)

Let's see here:

Hobos, Hustlers,and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco

Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street

Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty: not technically sociology, but explains how proposed economic solutions to problems are tripped up and prevented in some way by sociological issues.

Personally, all of these books were hella interesting. I think Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders was the most sociological book I read. I had no idea wtf symbolic interactionism was when I read it...but I got the gist of it because the author writes lucidly.

One I haven't read is Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. It's received nominations for awards and was very popular at one point.

u/Tookoofox · 2 pointsr/HistoryMemes

I've had that impression for a while. (Weirdly not for Texas though.) But what really cemented it in was This book. (It happens in Louisiana, so that's what I always picture whenever someone says, the south.)

Among other things, it lists example after example after example of corporations finding ways to socialize their costs while keeping their profits privatized.

Chemical dumping that damages the river, so everyone pays but the chemical company. Chemical dumping that damages roads and overpasses, so everyone pays but the company. And a general overall terror of making any kind of fuss, or the corporations will take all their jobs away.

That's to say nothing of the instances of when states straight-up give money away to try to poach business from other states. (Which, in general, also doesn't work. Because what a lot of corps do is they'll pick the state that they want to settle in, then get a couple into a bidding war for their headquarters. Then they milk the offer until it looks like it's as good as it's going to get, and settle in the state they wanted to go to in the first place. But now tax payers lose out on millions in lost taxes and sometimes straight-up payments.)

And that's not even what the book was about. It's kinda always just there. In the background.

And then there's also this sense that government is always, always, always bad. So they elect leaders that don't believe in government, who then govern badly, 'proving' that government is bad. And, thus, the elect more anti-system candidates.

I'd say that was more a republican thing than a southern thing but... I'm in Utah. The third reddest state in the union after Montana and Idaho, and I get the impression that we're run fairly effectively.

That's my general impression anyway.

u/jacobmar1ey · 2 pointsr/politics

I'll check it out.

Link for others like me:

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620973499/ref=cm_sw_r_em_apa_i_S023Ab62P5KW2