The Great Paradox Summary

After reading the first few pages of Strangers in their Own Land, I realized that my political views were similar to the authors, so I was interested to see what she discovered by doing some in depth research on "The Great Paradox". This is the idea that people living in extremely poor states still tend to align with republican views, even though they are the ones who would benefit from more government aid. Up until this point in the book, I am still not convinced that there is a reasonable explanation for why these republicans living in the deep South continue to hold the political values they do. After doing research and interviewing people from Louisiana, the author found that although many residents have life long lasting health problems