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56. Rebecca E. Klatch, Women of the New Right (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1988); and Kristin Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988).

57. Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers, which also contains many references to works on the prominent role of women in U.S. civic a.s.sociations.

58. Theda Skocpol, Diminished Democracy: From Members.h.i.+p to Management in American Civic Life (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), chapters 13.

CHAPTER 2.

1. Video of the Santelli rant is widely available online, including from CNBC's website: video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1039849853. Available as of May 5, 2011.

2. The statement appears at themaineteaparty.com/page/about-us. Available as of May 5, 2011.

3. Available at the Tea Party Patriots' Crawford Tea Party page, e tax.

6. Recounted by DeLemus in his talk in North Berwick Maine on April 14, 2011.

7. Sean Wilentz, ”Confounding Fathers: The Tea Party's Cold War Roots,” The New Yorker, October 18, 2010.

8. Available at the Greenville Tea Party website, /freedom-of-religion.html/, as of April 5, 2011.

9. Available at the Greenville Tea Party website, /freedom-of-religion.html/, as of April 5, 2011.

10. McNaughton's website includes a detailed description of each figure in the painting, from which these terms are drawn. Available at /artwork/view_zoom/?artpiece_id=353# as of May 6, 2011.

11. Andrew Romano, ”America's Holy Writ,” Newsweek, October 17, 2010.

12. Jeffrey H. Anderson, ”Obama Misquotes Declaration of Independence, Again,” The Weekly Standard, October 20, 2010.

13. Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

14. Lloyd Free and Hadley Cantril, The Political Beliefs of Americans (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1967); and Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs, Cla.s.s War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).

15. Peggy Noonan, ”The Tea Party to the Rescue,” Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2010. Other Noonan opinion pieces echo the same refrain.

16. From emails to Theda Skocpol.

17. For instance, David Brooks argued that ”big business” was a target for Tea Party anger. David Brooks, ”The Tea Party Teens,” New York Times, January 4, 2010.

18. Several Tea Party members spoke of unions, particularly those representing public employees and auto industry workers, in terms that made them sound like Gilded Age plutocrats. A Boston Tea Party event was organized under the banner, ”Collective Bargaining is EXTORTION.” From a Boston Tea Party event listing, available at /Boston-Tea-Party/events/16646263/ as of February 28, 2011.

19. CBS News/New York Times Poll, April 512, 2010.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. In Arizona, Tea Partiers who told us they were unconcerned about social issues held their tongues when social conservatives voiced their views.

23. Rosalind S. Helderman, ”Virginia fight over climate doc.u.ments will continue,” Was.h.i.+ngton Post, October 5, 2010. Available at /wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/04/AR2010100406825.html as of May 12, 2011.

24. For a fascinating history of modern conservatism, see Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008).

25. We almost never saw any member of a Tea Party audience question statements by visiting speakers, no matter how implausible.

26. CBS News/New York Times Poll, April 512, 2010.

27. Email to Theda Skocpol. Note that Rand likes the individual freedom he enjoys in the single-payer Medicare program, a program that is arguably the most socialized part of U.S. public social provision.

28. Mary Williams Walsh, ”Social Security to See Payout Exceed Revenue This Year,” New York Times, March 25, 2010, A1.

29. Daily Kos Weekly State of the Nation Poll (1001 registered U.S. voters; margin of error 3.1%), Public Policy Polling, January 23, 2011, pp. 78.

30. McClatchy/Marist poll, April 18, 2011. Available at maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/misc/usapolls/US110410/McClatchy/McClatchy-Marist%20Poll%20Complete%20April%2018th,%202011%20USA%20Poll%20Tables.pdf as of May 6, 2011.

31. DakotaPoll, ”DakotaPoll Finds Large Majority of Tea Party Supporters Favor Sales Tax Increase for Education,” February 14, 2011. Full results are also available at dakotapoll.com/category/february-2011-poll.

32. Asked about trade-offs in the South Dakota state budget between cuts in state support for public schools and nursing homes, on the one hand, and an increase in the sales tax during tourist season for the next three years, nearly three-quarters of the Tea Party supporters favored the tax increase.

33. Outside of Social Security and Medicare, Tea Partiers are generally not aware of all the forms of government a.s.sistance they have received-and they do not record these benefits in their mental ledgers of government's effect on their lives. Tea Partiers are mostly of the ”baby boom” generation, and thus were recipients of very intensive federal spending on education and infrastructure in the postWorld War Two era. Tea Party members we spoke to mentioned their own receipt of student loans, low-cost state college tuition, and public school education, among other government programs. But these comments were always made in pa.s.sing, unconnected to their views of government as a whole. Less tangible expenditures, such as the energy subsidies, home mortgage deductions, and highway funding that make modern suburban life widely affordable, seemed almost entirely invisible to Tea Partiers. For all their concern about government intervention in the economy, many of the government's most significant redistributions in their favor simply are not on the Tea Party radar. Instead, they typically attribute their own success to the functioning of the free market, and see their personal trajectory in the marketplace as resulting entirely from their own individual or family initiative. For more on government visibility, see Suzanne Mettler, 2010. ”Reconst.i.tuting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era.” Perspectives on Politics 8(03): 803824.

34. DakotaPoll, ”DakotaPoll Finds Large Majority of Tea Party Supporters Favor Sales Tax Increase for Education,” February 14, 2011. Full results are also available at dakotapoll.com/category/february-2011-poll.

35. Because of the public nature of her role on the Tea Party Express tour, we do not use a pseudonym in this instance.

36. ”Harper's Index,” Harper's Magazine, March 2011, p. 13.

37. Liz Schott, ”Policy Basics: An Introduction to TANF,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 19, 2009. Available at ing to interview her local Tea Party, Sandra had done some Internet research on her interviewers. She came across a presentation we had given on our research in Ma.s.sachusetts, which made this same point about the differentiation between ent.i.tlements and welfare. Sandra was somewhat frustrated that we felt this was a point worth making. As she put it, ”Well, obviously!”

39. Email to Theda Skocpol, February 24, 2010.

40. See Ronald Brownstein, ”The Gray and the Brown: The Generational Mismatch,” National Journal, July 24, 2010.