Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class WarCrown, 24. jún. 2008 - 288 síður Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks." Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Like countless American small towns, it is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the people in his old neighborhood do not have high school diplomas or health care. Alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape. He writes of: • His childhood friends who work at factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced • The mortgage and credit card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt • The ubiquitous gun culture—and why the left doesn’ t get it • Scots Irish culture and how it played out in the young life of Lynddie England |
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... Bush & Co.'s notorious ' base , ' i.e. , America's white working class , whose members have been ravaged by the very party that purports to take their side . Meanwhile , the Left has largely tuned them out , or even laughed at their ...
... Bush & Co.'s notorious ' base , ' i.e. , America's white working class , whose members have been ravaged by the very party that purports to take their side . Meanwhile , the Left has largely tuned them out , or even laughed at their ...
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... Bush to victory in 2004 ( and would again elect someone else just as unsavory even if they turn on Bush like feral dogs in these last days of his attempted imperial reign , even if he is hauled out of the Oval Office in custody ) ...
... Bush to victory in 2004 ( and would again elect someone else just as unsavory even if they turn on Bush like feral dogs in these last days of his attempted imperial reign , even if he is hauled out of the Oval Office in custody ) ...
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... Bush administration's crowing about fractional " rate changes . " Still , the myth of the power of white skin endures , and so does the unspoken belief that if a white person does not succeed , his or her lack of success can be due only ...
... Bush administration's crowing about fractional " rate changes . " Still , the myth of the power of white skin endures , and so does the unspoken belief that if a white person does not succeed , his or her lack of success can be due only ...
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... Bush . The fact is that liberals and working people need each other to survive the growing ecomomic calamity delivered to us by the regime that promised to " run this country like a business . " Sooner or later , despite the Democrats ...
... Bush . The fact is that liberals and working people need each other to survive the growing ecomomic calamity delivered to us by the regime that promised to " run this country like a business . " Sooner or later , despite the Democrats ...
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