Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class WarCrown, 24. jún. 2008 - 288 síđur 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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... folks are having a hard go of it . And it's getting harder . Two in five residents of the North End do not have a high school diploma . Here , nearly everyone over fifty has serious health problems , credit ratings rarely top 500 , and ...
... folks are having a hard go of it . And it's getting harder . Two in five residents of the North End do not have a high school diploma . Here , nearly everyone over fifty has serious health problems , credit ratings rarely top 500 , and ...
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... folks in the old neighborhood — though they own more electronic gadgets and newer cars - are faring worse than when I left in quality of life and basic security . And then there are those who've joined the growing permanent underclass ...
... folks in the old neighborhood — though they own more electronic gadgets and newer cars - are faring worse than when I left in quality of life and basic security . And then there are those who've joined the growing permanent underclass ...
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... folks who are in deep trouble and for whom all the talk about poverty statistics in the world by university researchers does not one iota of good . Universal access to a decent education , however , would lift the lives of millions over ...
... folks who are in deep trouble and for whom all the talk about poverty statistics in the world by university researchers does not one iota of good . Universal access to a decent education , however , would lift the lives of millions over ...
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... folks constitute some great American middle class . But the fact is , we are a working - class country . If we define " working class " simply as not having a college degree , then fully three - quarters of all Americans are working ...
... folks constitute some great American middle class . But the fact is , we are a working - class country . If we define " working class " simply as not having a college degree , then fully three - quarters of all Americans are working ...
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... folks than our media ever ventures , closer to those whose kids ' high school trip is to Iraq , who are two paydays away from homelessness yet in their pride cling to the notion that they are middle - class Americans . In what might be ...
... folks than our media ever ventures , closer to those whose kids ' high school trip is to Iraq , who are two paydays away from homelessness yet in their pride cling to the notion that they are middle - class Americans . In what might be ...
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