in muncie, middletown, they called it.ching the election through brexit eyes. i had just been through this. every time -- trump couldn't possibly win. people couldn't -- i was like, you know, never say never. and before you start talking about this new normal, let's think about what this old normal was. muncie lost a quarter of his manufacturing. a whole lot of jobs. you know, a beautiful -- i had a great time there. the people were very warm. but they were struggling. and in many ways, it looked like, when it come through, the story of the election, which was turnout was do. if white working class in muncie, switched to trump, and not by much. they had voted for obama twice. and the margins in the wealthy of muncie went way up. that seemed like kind of the story of the country, in a way. >> yes. i talked to a number of my friends, back in my home state of indiana. and in othther parts of the midwest. and they were telling me months before this election ever happened that trump was going to win. so much was being in the ri

i spent the months before the election in a town called muncie, indiana which was famous for a middle town study. a representative of qui quintestenial american town. i spent a week with high school students who hold up signs saying we love you, you are doing your best. there are good people across the country including in this book. people trying to make their communities better, trying to make sure everybody gets a dignified send off who has died. there are no shortage of good stories there. some of them in the segue that i think the gun problem is uniquely american among western countries so i think some of these good stories are uniquely american. >> host: matt, cleveland, ohio. you are on with gary younge. >> caller: hi, mr. younge. your book looks interesting and i think i will buy it. how many gun deaths and car accidents are related to people who are high on drugs or drunk? and the second question is you have two societies. i know switzerland and, i think, sweden, every man has a military rifle in his house, they are required to train with the militia or the national guard, wh

his parents did the famous study of muncie, indiana and middletown. he was their child. this is then the second week of working with those freedom school teachers headed to mississippi in the second week. really interesting. john doerr, the assistant attorney general, came and spoke to the volunteers. there he is right there. do you recognize him? where is he from? that is right, he was working with the kennedys. you remember what happened in jackson -- the funeral happens, we have what looks to be a riot forming. who are the people that helped stop that riot? john doar. the mississippi law enforcement with batons, and a lot of angry black people. who is with them? we have people who are here, getting ready to stop this massive riots and they did. and john doar shows up. what will you do -- they were worried about getting killed. john's response, nothing. there is no federal police force. the responsibility for protection is the local police, that is just the proof. the fbi is not a police agency. they do not have the authority. federalism, the separation of powers. it i

they published their ethnographies of the town called middletown, later called muncie. the kind of cluster of concerns the parents had in this era when more kids were going to high school, it is the first decade where you had a discernible adolescent or teenage the parents had in this era when subculture, and the things they were concerned about were sex, alcohol, and the car. they thought the automobile had a lot to do with the other two because it was giving people a literal freedom. boys and girls together, doing things that were illicit, including drink. jeffrey: it's said the sexual revolution of the 1960's was driven by the pill. was the sexual revolution of the 1920's driven by prohibition? lisa: i don't know if they call it driving. subculture, and the things they but i think they are all related factors. they go together. there is a certain aesthetic, a young people's aesthetic of the 1920's, which is clearly identifiable with everything from fashion to how one spends leisure time to what expectations are before marriage. all of that was coming together. it was

>> chairman, judge muncie, all of the very distinguished guests on the platform behind me were all of the very distinguished guests in the audience in front of me, and all of those outside who were unable to get in, may i first say how deeply grateful i am for your very warm reception. [ applause ] >> what had happened. >> this was four -- well, jack told me it was four hours which was unanticipated, every local authority and beauty queen and band played and so he sat there for four hours in an unair-conditioned gymnasium in kentucky in july. >> but a lit bit of levity, those of you who worked on campaigns recognize the name dick tuck. dick tuck was a democrat dirty tricks guy. and at the republican convention was in miami. and in miami at the convention dick tuck arranged for a number of pregnant black ladies to walk around in circles carrying a sign saying, nixon's the one. >> a couple of months later, ken, you're on the oxford -- >> but dick tuck showed up. >> he did? >> yes. and they had a parade and president nixon opened the car for the parade and this guy runs up with a book sa