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Eastern Standard - April 17th, 2025

In her book "Stolen Pride," Arlie Hochschild describes the “pride paradox” she documented in Eastern Kentucky.(Shutterstock / Shutterstock)

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In her book “Stolen Pride,” the Berkeley professor emerita Arlie Russell Hochschild uses reactions to a 2017 white supremacist march in Pikeville as a window into the political and sociological shifts that have transformed the country. “It occurred to me,” she writes, “that a close look at this vulnerable patch of red America — Kentucky’s Fifth Congressional District — might offer clues to red America as a whole, and indeed to…

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