JEFFREY BROWN:

From Berkeley, California, to the Louisiana bayou country, several thousand miles and a deep political and cultural divide.

In the new book "Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right," Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild draws a portrait of that divide through the lives of people in and around Lake Charles, Louisiana.

And the book has just been nominated for a National Book Award.

So, welcome and congratulations.

ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD, Author, "Strangers In Their Own Land": Thank you.