Must-Read: Economic anxiety!
John Judis: Deep Stories:
[Arlie Russell] Hochschild traces the origins of the deep story to two specific historical moments that she believes left many white Americans in the South in a state of mourning...
...the Civil War and Reconstruction, which bred resentment in white Southerners against the “moralizing North,” and the civil-rights revolution. These eras:
set off a series of social movements, which, to some degree, shuffled the order of those ‘waiting in line’ and laid down a simmering fire of resentment which was to flame up years later as the Tea Party. Putting the 1860s and 1960s together, white men of the South seemed to have lived through one long deep story of being shoved back in line...
an experience that Hochschild believes helps to explain the Tea Party’s commitment to “reversing progressive reform and dismantling the federal government”...
