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Index
Abner Jackson Plantation, 210
Abraham's Tent. 120, 293nl20
activism
environmental, 17, 193-94,197
for civil rights, 209, 212-14
global capitalism and, 237
AFDC. See Aid for Families with Dependent Children
affirmative action
Hardey on, 92-93
race and, 92-93, 137-38, 214
affluent
government services used by, 10-11
political contributions by, 267nl3
taxes, for top earners, 7, 264n7
age discrimination, 141—42
Agent Orange, 270n27
Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 255
air quality, 127, 295nl27-128. 307n233
alcohol, 67
Amanpour, Christiane, 128
American Chemical Association, 91-92
American Chemistry Council, 285n90
American Dream
church and, 122-23
deep story and, 136-37, 140-41
environment and, 122
progress and, 140—41
Tabor on, 173—75
American Nations (Woodard), 14—15
Angola Prison, 250
Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey, 257
anxiety
media and, 126-28
worry and, 188-89, 252-53, 300nnl88-89
Areno, Annette, 42, 242
on Trump, 229
Areno, Derwin, 42, 49, 53
Areno, Harold, 52, 242
background on, 39-42, 119
on Trump, 229
Areno, Janice, 153-56, 237, 239-40
on guns, 161
on honor and work, 156-58, 165-67
on industrial pollution, 162-63
on inequality, 160—61
rubberized horse, 163—65
on Trump, 228-29
Areno family
Bayou d'Inde and, 31, 39-45, 237-38
cancer in, 44
on climate change, 48—49
on industrial pollution, 42-47
on industrial regulation, 46—47, 52-53
lawsuit filed by, 53-54, 237-38, 309n238
religion and, 47-49, 118
in RESTORE, 129
Tritico and, 45, 118, 237-38
Armelise Plantation, 3-4, 13-14
Army Corps of Engineers, U.S., 46
Atchafalaya National Heritage Area, 50
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 22
Aunt Ruby's Bed and Breakfast, 21-22
Australia Plantation, 210
Axiall, 45, 238-39
explosion at, 70—71
Baugher, John, 188
bayou, 271n39
Bayou Corne Sinkhole, 288nl00
anger and reflection over, 108—15
beginning of, 99—101
cause and blame of, 101-2
community and, 105-6, 289nl06
disasters before, 198-204
government action after, 104—5
insurance companies relating to, 201
Jindal and, 102-4 lawsuits on, 107
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources and, 108
Napoleonville Dome and, 101-2
press on, 122
refugees of, 102-7, 194, 240-41, 301nl94
rumors, panic, and blame over, 107—8
salt domes and, 289nl02
Schaff on, 104-7, 194-97, 301nnl94-97
Texas Brine relating to, 101-2, 104, 105, 107-9, 194-96
Bayou d'Inde, 27, 29-30
Areno family and, 31, 39-45, 237-38
clean-up of, 237-38, 309n238
fish kill in, 31-34
water contamination in, 28—34, 40-45
BBI. See Beckett Brown International
Beatifo, Bill (fictional name), 142-43
Beck, Glenn, 23
Beckett Brown International (BBI), 296nl30
Beisner, Calvin, 123-24
Berman, Dennis, 91
Bertrand, Glen, 119
betrayal, 139-40
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 230
The Big Sort (Bishop and Cushing), 6, 263n6
The Billionaires' Tea Party (Oldham), 13
Bishop, Bill, 6, 263n6
BJP. See Bharatiya Janata Party
blue states, 78-80, 232-33
Bono, Chaz, 162
Boustany, Charles
Landry and, 55-59, 275n60
voting records for, 59-60
BP oil spill. See Deepwater Horizon
Brantley, Cappy, 181-82, 190-91, 210, 239
Brantley, Fay, 181-82, 190-91, 239
Brown, Michael, 61
Brown and Ferris International, 46
brown pelican, 138—39
Brown vs. the Board of Education, 213, 287n95
Buffett, Warren, 178
Bidls, Bears, and the Ballot Box (Deitrick and Goldfarb), 234
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 257, 259
Burton Coliseum, 33
Cajuns. See French Catholic Acadians
Calcasieu Advisory Task Force, 31
Calcasieu Estuary, 110, 286n91
Calcasieu Parish, 26
Calcasieu Ship Channel, 31
California Waste Management Board, 80-81
cancer, 26
in Areno family, 44
in Cancer Alley, 62-64
capital investments, 284n85
capitalism, global, 236-37. See also free-market
Cappel, Sally, 12-13, 16, 240, 250
case study visits and follow-arounds, 16-20
Casey, Annie E., 9
Cash, W.J., 208-9, 221-22, 303n208, 304n208
catcalls, 144-45, 298nl44
Cerrell Associates, Inc., 80
Chaney, James, 213
charity donations, 289nl06
chemical exposure, 28-29
to Corexit, 275n65
of EDC, 96-97, 122, 129, 184-91
worry versus actual exposure, 188—89
Chico Aquifer, 96
child well-being, 9
children, 256-57, 312n257
Children's Health Insurance Program, 256
chlorinated hydrocarbon manufacturing facility, 46, 272n45
Christian Coalition, 123
Christian persecution, 219
Christians for Mountains, 124
church
American Dream and, 122—23 education and, 217
emotions and, 119-21
environment and, 122—25, 294nl23
evangelical, 123, 294nl23
honor and, 158, 190, 217
in Lake Charles, 18
moral values and, 122-26, 217
press and, 117-18, 122-23
social life and, 118-21
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 13
Civil Rights Act, 213-14, 305n214
civil rights activists, 209, 212-14
Civil War, 8, 209-10
Confederate officials of, 270nn20-21
reenactment, 250
class
conflict, 148-49
free-market, and, 148-51
liberal upper-middle class, 218
Clean Air Act, 8
Clean Water Act, 32, 271n32
climate change, 7
Areno family on, 48-49
coast line and, 48-49
McCorquodale on, 183
political views relating to, 264n7
religion and, 48-49, 124
Sherman on, 48
climate refugees, 200
Clinton, Bill, 234-35, 255
coastal postal addresses, 200
collective effervescence, 225—26
common impressions
on economic growth, 260—62
fact-checking, 255—61
on incentive money, 259
on jobs, 257-58, 260
on oil and economy, 260—61
on poverty, 256—57
on public employees, 257
on regulation, 258-60
on state subsidies, 260
on welfare, 255-56
community, 218
Bayou Corne Sinkhole and, 105-6, 289nl06
free-market and, 112
social life and, 118-21, 135
Condea Vista, 96-97, 129-30, 184-85. See also Sasol
Confederate officials, 270nn20-21
Conoco, 45-46
Corexit, 275n65
corporate gifts, 13
corporate goodwill, 78
corporate income taxes, 75
corruption, 47—48
cotton industry, 210-11
covenant marriage, 216-17
crawfish farmers, 271n32
creation care, 124 Creoles, 269nl6
Cruz, Ted, 224, 229, 242
cultural marginalization, 221-22
Cushing, Robert G., 6, 263n6
deep story, 268nl6
American Dream and, 136-37, 140-41
betrayal as, 139-40
catcalls, 144-45
class, free-market, and, 148-51
description of, 135, 297nl35
emotions and, 297nl35
gender and, 147-48
government services and, 143
intermission, 140-43
line cutters, 137-39, 145-46
of progressive left, 235-36
race and, 146-47
social life and, 135
of Tabor, J., 170-75
for Tea Party, 135-51, 227
Trump's rise and, 221-22, 227
waiting in line, 136-37
Deepwater Horizon, 46, 276n65
description of, 64—65
marine mortality after, 277n65
Obama, B., on, 65
Deitrick, Bob, 234
Democrats, 60—61. See also specific topics
blue states, 78-80, 232-33
catcalls by, 144-45, 298nl44
derogatory remarks, 227-28
desegregation, 213, 287n95
dioxin rates, 110, 291nl09, 292nll0
Dodd-Frank restrictions, 274n59
Douglass, Michael T., 77
Dow and Union Carbide, 102
drilling permits, 108-10, 291nll0
drinking water, 275n63
Duke, David, 226
Durkheim, Emile, 225-26
Earned Income Tax Credit, 256
earthquakes, 100, 105, 107, 288nl00
ECHO database, 274n59
economic agenda, 14
economic growth, 234
common impressions on, 260-62
environment and, 78, 283n78
from fracking, 90
high road strategy on, 77, 282n77
low road strategy on, 77, 282n77
oil and, 76-77, 260-61
regulation relating to, 78, 283n78
Republicans relating to, 261
economic progress, 50
economic recovery, 8
economic self-interest, 228
EDC. See ethylene dichloride education, 9
church and, 217
desegregation in, 213, 287n95
funding for, 95
Jindal on, 95, 231
National Report Card on, 9
student activity groups, 19-20, 269n20
UPI and, 273n47
Edwards, John Bel, 231
Ehrenreich, Barbara, 144
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 7, 264n7
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Durkheim), 225-26
Elliott, Rebecca, 79, 251-52, 255
emotional elation, 227-28
emotional self-interest, 228
emotions, 128, 278n66
church and, 119-21
collective effervescence, 225-26
deep story and, 297nl35
disgust 162, 228
elation 227-29
feeling rules and, 15-16, 178, 227-28
mourning 18, 49, 225
PC (politically correct) 35, 128, 158, 227
sympathy, 139, 146, 227-28
Trump's rise relating to, 225-28
empathy walls, 5-8, 82, 233, 263n5
endurance, 155 Entergy, 46
environment
American Dream and, 122
church and, 122-25, 294nl23
economic growth and, 78, 283n78
free-market and, 201-2
geography, risk, and, 252-53
Honoré on, 62-64, 248
insurance companies, 201
jobs and, 51, 77-78, 258-59
political candidates on, 59-60, 61-64
Schaff on, 197-201
Tabor, J., on, 176-78
Tea Party and, 198, 199-201
environmental damage. See also specific environmental issues
before Bayou Corne Sinkhole, 198-204
as keyhole issue, 21-23, 79-80
by Pittsburgh Plate Glass, 27-29
remembering, 49-52, 108, 198-99
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 7-8, 274n60
ECHO database, 274n59
enforcement compliance, 274n59
establishment of, 32
on government reporting, 109, 290nl09, 291nl09
Schaff on, 202-3
TRI of, 252
Trump on, 225
environmental protection budget cuts, 109-10
environmental reports, 109-11
EPA. See Environmental Protection Agency
Equal Rights Amendment, 7
ethane cracker, 238-39, 284n86
ethylene dichloride (EDC), 45-46, 102, 271n31
chemical leak of, 96-97, 122, 129, 184-91
I-10 bridge and, 184-91
evangelical church, 123, 294nl23
Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan, 51-52
exploratory research, 247
Exxon, 282n76
fact-checking, 255—61
Falwell, Jerry, 123
federal employees, 161-62
federal policies, 109-10, 290nl09, 291nl09
feeling rules, 15-16, 178, 227-28 See also emotion
feminist movement, 214
fertility, 188, 300nl88, 312n257
Filipino workers, 74, 280n74
financial crisis, 231—32
fish
consumption safety, 110-11
kill, in Bayou d'Inde, 31-34
marine mortality and, 277n65
-related jobs, 32, 211, 271n32
Seafood Advisory on, 31-34, 271n31
Fleming, John, 26, 37, 239
flooding, 200
Florida, Richard, 233
focus groups, 247-48
Ford, Henry, 7
foreign policy, 90
forgetting, 49-52, 108, 198-99
formaldehyde, 48
Fox News, 126-28, 295nl28
Great Recession, 2008 and, 268nl5
fracking, 241-42, 260, 285n90, 286n91
boom, 90-92
e
conomic growth from, 90
foreign policy and, 90
history of, 89-90
industrial pollution relating to, 90-91
jobs in, 74, 90
in Lake Charles, 21
Frank, Thomas, 8, 14, 228, 268nl4
Frankland, Peggy, 32-33
free collective bargaining, 7
freedom
Honoré on, 62—71
regulation and, 67-69
Freedom of Information Act, 187
Freedom Riders, 209
Freedom Summer, 212-13
free-market, 9-10
class, deep story, and, 148-51
community and, 112
environment and, 201-2
global capitalism and, 236—37
insurance companies and, 201
Jindal on, 112
Trump and, 228
French Catholic Acadians (Cajuns), 41. 56, 269nl6
French language, 42, 271n42
funding
for education, 95
incentive money, 73-74, 92, 94, 259
under Jindal, 231
for Louisiana, 9, 265n9
in red states, 9—10
Galicia, Sharon, 229, 237
Gallup polls, 249
gender. See also women
deep story and, 147-48
jobs and, 138
masculinity and, 202-3
regulation and, 68
white male, 212, 215-16, 229-30
General Social Survey (GSS), 79, 266nl1—12
overview of, 251—52
research using, 249-50, 251-52
geography
political divide relating to, 14-15
risk, environment, and, 252—53
Gitlin, Todd, 214
global capitalism, 236—37
Goldfarb, Lew, 234
Goldwater, Barry, 7
Goldwater, Peggy, 7
Good Jobs First, 260
Goodman, Andrew, 213
goodwill, 78
government cuts
under Jindal, 231-32
in Tea Party era, 7-8
government redistribution, 93-94, 160-61
Trump relating to, 221
government reporting, 109-10, 290nl09, 291nl09
government services
affluence and use of, 10-11
deep story and, 143
Schaff on, 112-14, 197
Tea Party on, 10-11
to undeserved, 149-50, 157-60, 255-56
welfare, 255-56. 310n255
women and, 188, 300nl88, 312n257
grassroots environmental groups, 32
Great Depression, 8
Great Paradox, 79-80
political divide and, 8-16
regulation and, 102
two notches up thesis on, 10-12
Great Recession, 2008, 8, 141, 143
Fox News and, 268nl5
Obama, B„ and, 268nl5
Green Army, 62, 195
gross state product (GSP), 260—61
GSS. See General Social Survey
guns
Areno, J., on, 161
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