Question Paraphrased: "How come I'm finding all this evidence not supporting my political assertions?"
Or it could also be titled: "UC Berkeley Sociologist Arlie Hochschild desperately tries to defend his extreme Bias in the face of inconclusive evidence."
I'm not going to bother reading the article, but I suspect it is along the lines of "they were tricked by Bush into liking him, the poor stupid fools only me, a UC Berekley Sociologist knows what is good for the poor ignorant Blue collared workers". Or some equally assinine . . .
sigh no wait let me skim it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
yup
I see:
Can you explain how this bait-and-switch basically works?
So Bush is taking the future as well as the present away from these blue-collar men. And it's all to sell them a fairy tale.
So I'm looking at this data and it's a surprise that 50% of blue collar males don't seem to be voting in -- what we might think they would see as -- their self-interest.
(Though I will give him points on this one for phrasing it in a really nonoffensive middle of the road manner)
hmm. . . well the guys not as stuck up as I was expecting, but still he comes across as very closed minded and worthless sociologist in that he has political assertations (opinions) and is applying them as fact and trying to expain why things aren't making any sense to him.
(then again, whats a sociologist good for anyway?)