Strangers in Their Own Land

DNFing this super early (3%!). But it is already rubbing me the wrong way, here, now, in 2025. I don't feel like I'll learn anything? I hate to be so damning. It's a highly-rated book! But, my thoughts so far:
- It feels so very dated.
- It feels like a guide for the anxious white liberal, post-Trump's 2016 election, to understand the (anxious?) white conservative.
- She calls Black people “blacks”. This is maybe just euphemism treadmilling, but that kept jarring me. I started hunting to see if she called white people “whites”.
- She doesn't contextualize the “irrational” political behaviors as existing within white supremacist institutions. For example, she mentions how very poorly Louisiana does on a bunch of indicators - and the relationship of, presumably, poor Louisianans to the social welfare state. But she doesn't immediately (and it should be immediate!) cut these indicators by race. I immediately thought of, e.g. Dying of Whiteness.

Anyway, given all this, I'm DNFing this. It's an artifact! Immediately outdated! Sob.