do people resonate with new economy, do people resonate better with people's economy?

Economic democracy, should we be treating these actions separately, should we be aligning

under a movement?

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We've been talking with Professor and Eridus Sociology, Arleigh Russell, Hokes Shield, author

of the very, very in-depth insight into the area of rural and industrial America in Lake

Charles, Louisiana.

She calls the book Strangers in their own land because that's how they feel.

They feel abandoned.

Just to generalize a bit and bring it up to date, Professor Hokes Shield, would you say

that the Trump victory was very much made possible.

He lost a popular vote, by the way, just won the electoral college.

The Trump victory was a victory driven by white America, rooted in three dimensions, race,

culture and economics.

Yes, but you know, I think the main point I draw away from this is that the Democratic

Party didn't have much to offer people like that.

I think they didn't see themselves reflected in the conversation.

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