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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... Democrats arose to a new order . Smoke from neoconservative campfires hung over all points southward and westward . The hairy fundamentalist Christian hordes , the redneck blue - collar legions , and other cultural Visigoths stirred ...
... Democrats arose to a new order . Smoke from neoconservative campfires hung over all points southward and westward . The hairy fundamentalist Christian hordes , the redneck blue - collar legions , and other cultural Visigoths stirred ...
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... Democrat or leftie seems to grasp that much of workingclass theocrats ' eagerness to join the corporatists at putting the liberal yuppies in their place is revenge based . Working - class people can perceive the upper - middle - class ...
... Democrat or leftie seems to grasp that much of workingclass theocrats ' eagerness to join the corporatists at putting the liberal yuppies in their place is revenge based . Working - class people can perceive the upper - middle - class ...
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... Democrats ' wins in the 2006 midterm elections , the left must genuinely connect face - to - face with Americans who do not necessarily share all of their priorities , and especially with Americans who have not been voting , if the left ...
... Democrats ' wins in the 2006 midterm elections , the left must genuinely connect face - to - face with Americans who do not necessarily share all of their priorities , and especially with Americans who have not been voting , if the left ...
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... Democrat , is going to offer national health care , not the genuine article , although I suspect the Democrats will bandy some phony version next election . If Dot is lucky , a pollster might call her , take her political temperature ...
... Democrat , is going to offer national health care , not the genuine article , although I suspect the Democrats will bandy some phony version next election . If Dot is lucky , a pollster might call her , take her political temperature ...
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