Sociologist examines Appalachian voters’ rightward shift, with Trump as their ‘shame shield’

In her 2016 bestselling book “Strangers in Their Own Land,” UC Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild proposed that everyone has a “deep story”—a narrative about one’s life and the world that’s based more on emotion than facts, a story that feels true.

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