Louisiana Tea Party voters faced real industrial pollution and cancer risks before 2016

Evidence

Arlie Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land (2016) offers a noteworthy example of such speculative communities emerging in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Her book presents ethnographic findings from a Tea Party stronghold in the state of Louisiana during the years leading to the 2016 Trump election. Hochschild provides powerful evidence of the severe risk exposures experienced by Louisianans—most devastatingly, environmental risks deriving from the unregulated activity of the oil and petrochemical industries operating in the state. These are real, materially felt risks, affecting hundreds of state inhabitants who experienced (among other forms of insecurity and precarity) ill health and dramatic increases in rates of cancer during the 2010s. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 281

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Greater environmental risk exposure correlates with less worry among Louisiana Tea Party voters — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 281; Chamorros suffer elevated cancer rates linked to base pollution — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 424
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Greater environmental risk exposure correlates with less worry among Louisiana Tea Party voters — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 281; Chamorros suffer elevated cancer rates linked to base pollution — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 424

Broader Connections

• Greater environmental risk exposure correlates with less worry among Louisiana Tea Party voters #complicates (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 281