A Midwest Liberal Encounters West Coast Liberalism
Over the summer, I read Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in their Own Land as part of Pomona College’s required reading for incoming students. The book dove into the thoughts, minds, and history of the American right through interviews with locals in the Louisiana bayou, one of the poorest and deeply conservative areas in the country. As a Democrat, President Trump’s election was a fresh wound, and I looked to these interviews to clarify what other side of the political a