They perceive a situation where women, immigrants, and racial minorities have been "cutting in line" to achieve the American Dream. According to Hochschild, Tea Party supporters have reacted against the changing face of America in the last few decades. The core of the book is Hochschild's attempt to distill the worldview of Tea Party supporters, who formed part of the same constituency that heavily backed Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. Prominent among these were their attitudes about taxes, their religious convictions, and challenges to their honor. Hochschild's research led her to focus on the cultural values that led people to oppose government regulation. Hochschild wanted to understand why there was little support for environmental regulation in this area, despite what would seem to be the self-interest of its residents.
The bayou area has a high concentration of petrochemical plants as well as a high level of pollution in its waterways. She focuses her efforts in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in Calcasieu Parish.
Hochschild's book was written after speaking to focus groups and interviewing Tea Party supporters. The book sets out to explain the worldview of supporters of the Tea Party movement in Louisiana. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right is a 2016 book by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild.
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