" Confederates tried to get out from under the control of the federal government—to secede. But you can’t secede from oil. And you can’t secede from a mentality. You have to think your way into and out of that mentality. But they should get me in a different costume to talk about that. "

― Arlie Russell Hochschild , Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right