Impressed by “deep story”

The book is a liberal, Berkley sociologist’s encounter with ordinary Republicans living in Louisiana. The strength of the book is that these voices from the Deep South of the US are rendered in a way that seems credible and authentic. A bit enervating, though, is the almost monotone focus on their ambivalent, paradoxical and inconsistent view on the environment. Yes, they are somewhat in denial, we get that.
I was most impressed by her formulation of their Deep Story, because I would have thought her incapable of formulating it because she has so strong liberal biases herself. As it is formulated, one wonders whether she could formulate her own deep story. At the end of the book, there is a short version of the liberal deep story. What I miss, though, is an attempt to know what is true, right and wrong about these deep stories. She does think that the Deep Story of Louisianans is flawed and wrong (morally), but what about its truth. Aren’t there any truth to it? When it comes to discussing economics, she basically says that Democratic lead states are the better, so says some economists she has read. I felt kind of argumentatively shortchanged on those points, because she kind of used it to prove that environment and economical development are not mutually exclusive. I’d like to think they are not, but maybe the case isn’t as clear for Louisiana and the options, they had?

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Ein Einblick in eine andere Welt, die viele von uns nie selbst erleben würden. Interessant geschrieben mit vielen gut recherchierten Fakten unterlegt. Ich habe eine neue Perspektive auf eine andere politische Seite bekommen.

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