death rates from, 278n68
regulation on, 7. 67-68, 278n67
Stand Your Ground law, 278n67
Haidt, Jonathan, 15
Hanley, Caroline, 77
Hardey, Bob, 85-89, 95-96, 118
on affirmative action, 92—93
on incentive money, 94
political views of, 92-93, 97
hazardous waste imports, 63-64, 276n64
hazardous waste production, 63-64, 276n64
Heritage Foundation, 47
high road strategy, 77, 282n77
Hofstadter, Richard, 207
homosexuality, 162, 216—17
honor, 114, 144
Areno, J., on, 156-58, 165-67
church and, 158, 190, 217
McCorquodale on, 189
moral values and, 190, 217
oil relating to, 210-11
political movements relating to, 214-18
in sacrifice, 217, 232
squeeze, 215-18
struggle for, 214-15
Tea Party and, 35, 47
Tritico on, 189 work and, 156-60, 165-67
Honoré, Russel, 61, 231
background on, 62
on environment, 62—64, 248
on freedom, 62—71
on oil, 62-64
Schaff and, 195
Houck, Oliver, 210
House Tea Party Caucus, 266nl2
housing discrimination, 214
Hout, Mike, 252, 305n211
human development rankings, 9, 59
Hurricane Katrina, 200
hypothesis generating research, 247
I-10 bridge, 184-91
identity politics, 212
development of, 214
Tea Party and, 214-15
Trump relating to, 229—30
immigrants. 138, 269nl6
Trump on, 226
incentive money, 73 -74, 92, 94
common impressions on, 259
regulation and, 259
income distribution, 149-50, 298nl49, 298nl50
Independents, 266nll-12
industrial growth, 21
industrial pollution, 8-9, 307n233
Areno, J., on, 162—63
Areno family on, 42—47
fracking relating to, 90—91
least resistance to, 80-82
national discoveries on, 251—53
from plastic, 91-92
political views relating to. 79-80
red and blue of, 78-80, 232-33, 251-53
Tabor, J., on, 176-77
industrial regulation, 70-71
Areno family on, 46-47, S2-53
inequality, 160-61
infrastructure, 7
injection mining, 289nl01
Institute for Southern Studies, 281n75
institutional forgetting, 49-52
insurance companies, 201
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 7, 59, 264n7
interviews, 16-20, 247-49
IRS. See Internal Revenue Service
Is God Green?, 123
Jackson, Scoop, 26
Jambalaya Capital, 63-64
Jindal, Bobby, 47, 76, 281n75
Bayou Corne Sinkhole and, 102-4
on education, 95, 231
financial crisis after, 231-32
on free-market, 112
funding under, 231
government cuts under, 231-32
jobs under, 231
on lawsuits, 200
Long versus, 92—94
on Southeast Flood Control Commission, 200
taxes under, 75, 231—32
Tea Party on, 232
jobs
affirmative action and, 92-93, 137-38, 214
Bureau of Labor Statistics on, 257, 259
common impressions on, 257-58, 260
environment and, 51, 77-78, 258-59
by Filipino workers, 74, 280n74
fish-related, 31-32, 211, 271n32
in fracking, 74, 90
gender and, 138
Good Jobs First on, 260
high road strategy on, 77
under Jindal, 231
low road strategy on, 77
man camps, 74, 88-89
Mass Layoff Statistics on, 259, 314n259
oil and, 72, 73-76, 279n74, 280n74
permanent, 74-75
psychological program on, 61—64, 72, 77-78
in public sector, 111-12, 138, 161-62, 257-58, 312n257, 313n258
regulation and, 72, 73-74, 258-59
Sasol on, 280n74
state subsidies relating to, 260
Templet on, 74, 76-78
temporary, 74
wages and, 125, 141, 149, 298nl49
wealth and, 141, 143, 297nl41, 297n!43
work, honor, and, 156-60, 165-67
workers' strikes, 148—49
working-poor rates and, 311n256
Johnson, Lyndon B., 213-14
Johnson, Mark, 268nl6
Junior Miss Black Pride Contest, 250
Kelly, Megyn, 228
Kennedy, John F., 213
keyhole issue
environmental damage as, 21-23, 79—80
in political divide, 21—23
reflection on, 131
Kids Count Data Book (Casey), 9
KKK, See Ku Klux Klan
Koch, Charles, 13, 267nl3
Koch, David, 13, 267nl3
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 213, 223, 226
Kumkar, Nils, 145
Lafayette Parish, 55-60
Lake Charles, Louisiana, 94—95
churches in, 118
fracking in, 21
natural gas in, 87
Ozone Advance Program in, 91
study visits in, 16-20
Lake Charles Project, 129-30
Lake Peigneur disaster, 198-99, 302nl99
protesters at, 223-25, 226
Trump at, 222-28
Lakoff, George, 268nl6
Landry, Dennis, 108
Landry, Jeff Boustany and, 55-59, 275n60
as Tea Party candidate, 57-59
voting records for, 60
Lane, David, 294nl23
lawsuits
by Areno family, 53-54, 237-38, 309n238
on Bayou Corne Sinkhole, 107
Brown vs. the Board of Education, 213. 287n95
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 13
on Condea Vista chemical leak, 96-97, 129
Jindal on, 200
on Lake Peigneur drilling, 199
LEAN. See Louisiana Environmental Action Network
least resistant personality profile, 80—81
liberal upper-middle class, 218
Liberty Insurance Company, 201
life expectancy, 8-9, 125-26, 265n8, 295nl25
Life on the Mississippi (Twain), 210
Limbaugh, Rush, 22-23, 117
Little Pass de Wharf, 199
Living Way Pentecostal Church, 114-20
logging industry, 282n77
Long, Huey, 92-94
Longman, Phillip, 141
Louisiana. See also specific locations; specific topics
capital investments in, 284n85
funding for, 9, 265n9
GSP and TPI in, 260-61
tax ranking in, 281n75
Tea Party in, 12, 266nl2
Louisiana Chemical Association, 210-11
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, 109, 194-95, 272n44
Louisiana Department of Health and Human Services, 33, 110
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, 108
Louisiana Economic Development and Tax Foundation, 75
Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN), 199
Louisiana legislature letters, 194-95
Louisiana Purchase Trees, 50
Louisiana State Tourist Bureau, 50—51
low road strategy, 77, 282n77
loyalty, 165
lynching, 304n208
MacGillis
, Alec, 10-11, 251
man camps, 74, 88-89
Markey, Peter, 129-30
marsh, 271n39
masculinity, 202—3
Mass Layoff Statistics, 259, 314n259
Massey, Glenn, 119-20
Massey, Madonna, 22-23, 117, 119, 122, 124-25, 239
Mayer, Jane, 13
McCorquodale, Donny, 237
background on, 182—84
on climate change, 183
on honor, 189
on I-10 bridge, 184-91
on regulation, 186-87
on risk, 185-86, 187
Tritico and, 182-91
on Trump, 229, 239
The Measure of America (Social Science Research Council), 9
media
anxiety and, 126-28
Fox News, 126-28, 268nl5, 295nl25
news commentators on, 127—28
Medicaid, 256
mercury, 272n44
Meredith, James, 213
metaphors, 268nl6, 297nl35
Meyer, Stephen, 78
migration, 6
The Mind of the South (Cash), 20S-9, 221-22
Mississippi River, 62-63, 275n63
monoethylene glycol plant, 238-39
moral values, 15, 158, 162
church and, 122-26, 217
honor and, 190, 217
moratorium, 65—67
Moyers, Bill, 123
Muslims, 226
Napoleonville Dome, 101—2
National Association of Evangelicals, 123
national debt, 7
National Endowment for the Oceans, 48
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 200
National Opinion Research Center, 251-52
National Report Card, 9
natural gas, 87, 284n86, 285n90
Nelson Station, 46
news commentators, 127—28
Nicaragua, 265n8
90-10 distribution figure, 149, 298nl49
Nixon, Richard, 7, 220, 234-35, 271n32
NOAA. See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Norway, 235, 308n235
nostalgia, 49-50
Nuer people, 51-52
Oak Alley Plantation, 211, 250
Obama, Barack, 12, 127, 137, 139-40
on Deepwater Horizon, 65
Great Recession and, 268nl5
Obama, Michelle, 137-38
occupational safety, 28, 189-90
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 35
Occupy Wall Street movement, 16, 149
O'Connor, Arthur, 79
OECD. See Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Office of Mineral Resources, 75, 308n235
oil, 4
boom, 92
company ownership, 76
cotton industry relating to, 210-11
drilling permits, 108-10, 291nll0
economic growth and, 76-77, 260—61
Filipino workers in, 74, 280n74
honor relating to, 210-11
Honoré on, 62-64
jobs and, 72, 73-76, 279n74, 280n74
moratorium on, 65-67
political contributions from oil industry, 267nl3
poverty and, 77, 282n77
revenue from, 75-76, 282n76
on seafood industry, 211
severance taxes from, 75
tank farms for, 211
Templet on, 74, 76-77, 211
on tourism, 211
oil spills
Deepwater Horizon, 46, 64-65, 276n65, 277n65
Union Oil spill, 233
Oldham, Taki, 13
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 78
Ozone Advance Program, 91
participant observation, 249
partyism, 6-7, 263n6
Paul, Ron, 6, 59
Paulville, Texas, 6
permits, 108-10, 291nll0
Perry, Rick, 59
Pew opinion polls, 249
Piketty, Thomas, 298nl50
Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG), 26-30, 151, 286n91
Seafood Advisory and, 33-34
Planned Parenthood, 7
plantation system, 208-11, 303n208, 304n208
plastic, 91-92
political candidates, 59-60, 61-64. See also specific candidates
political contributions
by affluent, 267nl3
from oil industry, 267nl3
for purchased influence, 13—24
political cooperation, 233—34
political culture, 207
"Political Difficulties Facing Waste-to-Energy Conversion Plant Siting" (Powell), 80-81
political divide, 5—7
both sides of, 233—37
case study visits on, 16—20
geography relating to, 14—15
Great Paradox and, 8-16
keyhole issue in, 21—23
Republicans relating to, 7-8
political influence, 13-14
political movements
civil rights, 209, 212-14
of 1860s, 208-10
feminist movement, 214
honor relating to, 214—18
of 1960s and 1970s, 211-17
Tea Party relating to, 207-8, 214-18
political views
climate change relating to, 264n7
of Hardey, 92-93, 97
industrial pollution relating to, 79-80
of Sherman, 34-35
politically correct speech and ideas, 128, 158
Trump on, 227—28
poverty
common impressions on, 256-57
oil and, 77, 282n77
Templet on, 77
working-poor rates, 311n256
Powell, Stephen ]., 80-81
power, 52—53
PPG. See Pittsburgh Plate Glass
precautionary principle, 184-85
press. See also media
on Bayou Corne Sinkhole, 122
church and, 117-18, 122-23
on EDC leak, 122
on Lake Charles Project, 130
prisons
Angola Prison, 250
regulation on, 68-69
progress
American Dream and, 140-41
economic, 50
in political culture, 207
progressive left, 235-36
progressive reform, 207
protesters, 223—25, 226
psychological program on jobs, 61-64, 72, 77-78
Templet on, 77—78
public employees, 138, 312n257
common impressions on, 257
federal employees, 161—62
Schaff on, 111-12
public sector, 111-12, 138, 161-62, 257-58, 312n257, 313n258
public services, 121
Putin, Vladimir, 230
race
affirmative action and, 92-93, 137-38, 214
deep story and, 146-47
desegregation, in education, 213, 287n95
regulation and, 68
Schaff on, 146-47
women, children, and, 257, 312n257
racial disadvantage, 93
racial equality, 212-14
racism, 146—47
rally at Lakefront Airport 221—22, 306n221
Rand, Ayn, 22, 233-34
rapture, 53, 124-25, 295nl25
Reagan, Ronald, 7
red states, 8-9, 232-33
funding in, 9—10
Reed, Ralph, 123
refugees
of Bayou Corne Sinkhole, 102-7. 194, 240-41, 301nl94
climate, 200
Syrian, 218-20, 227
regression analysis, 252-53
regulation, 70-71
on alcohol, 67
common impressions on, 258-60
economic growth relating to, 78, 283n78
freedom and, 67-69
gender and, 68
Great Paradox and, 102
on guns, 7, 67-68,
278n67
incentive money and, 259
industrial, 46-47, 52-53, 70-71
jobs and, 72, 73-74, 258-59
least resistance to, 80-82, 283n80
McCorquodale on, 186-87
moratorium and, 66-67
power and, 52 53
on prisons, 68-69
race and, 68
self-service, 70-72
states rated by strictness of, 78
Reich, Robert, 150, 236
religion, 18-19. See also church
Areno family and, 47-49, 118
Christian persecution, 219
climate change and, 48—49, 124
rapture and, 53, 124-25, 295nl25
Republicans and, 47, 54
Tabor, J., on, 170, 172-73
Tea Party and, 35, 47
totems and, 226
Trump on, 226
worship unification and, 226
remembering, 49-52, 108, 198-99
renunciation, 173-79
Republican Women of Southwest Louisiana, 17, 117, 229, 240, 247-48
Republicans. See also Tea Party; specific topics
economic growth relating to, 261
political divide relating to, 7-8
red states, 8-10, 232-33
religion and, 47, 54
rise of, 13-14 11
Southern states, 11—12
research
exploratory, 247
focus groups, 247-48
with General Social Survey, 249-50, 251-52
hypothesis generating. 247
interviews, 247-49
method overview, 247—50
participant observation, 249
regression analysis, 252-53
snowball sampling, 247
RESTORE, 129-30
Ridgewav. James, 130
Righteous Mind (Haidt!. 15
right-wing regimes, 230
Ringo, Paul, 50, 270n31
risk
geography, environment, and, 252—53
McCorquodale on, 185-86, 187
occupational safety and, 189—90
Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEIs), 79, 252-53, 310nn252-53
River Road, 62-64
Roberts, J. Timmons, 188
Robertson, Pat, 123
Romney, Mitt, 47
RSEIs. See Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators
rubberized horse, 163—65
Russell, Gordon, 260
Sabine River, 270n31
sacrifice, 217, 232
Saez, Emmanuel, 298nl50
salt domes, 101-2, 198-99, 302nl99, 303n202
Bayou Corne Sinkhole and, 289nl02
injection mining and, 289nl01
San Francisco public services, 121
Sanders, Bernie, 12, 237
Sanders, Perry, 130
Santorum, Rick, 47
Sasol. 46, 286n91
expansion of, 85-89, 91, 95-97, 270n21
on jobs, 280n74
Southwest Louisiana Regional Impact Study and, 74, 94-96, 280n74
water use by, 91, 95
Save Lake Peigneur, 199
Saving Capitalism (Reich), 150
scapegoating, 226
Schaff, Mike, 3-5, 13-14, 99, 241-42
background on, 5-6, 9-10, 118, 193-94
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