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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... which streets represented the color line . Those same streets are becoming black and Latino now , and you can see the families who live there going through the same struggles for modest respectability in 4 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
... which streets represented the color line . Those same streets are becoming black and Latino now , and you can see the families who live there going through the same struggles for modest respectability in 4 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
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... going to produce enough grass to threaten the walkways . They do the very things white working people once did to proclaim : " We might be poor but we ain't coloreds . " Admittedly , my people are a little seedier than most ; this is ...
... going to produce enough grass to threaten the walkways . They do the very things white working people once did to proclaim : " We might be poor but we ain't coloreds . " Admittedly , my people are a little seedier than most ; this is ...
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... going to grow up to be president of the United States , regardless of what your teacher told you . You are going to be pulling down eight bucks an hour at shift work someplace 10 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
... going to grow up to be president of the United States , regardless of what your teacher told you . You are going to be pulling down eight bucks an hour at shift work someplace 10 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
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... going to be pitted against your fellow workers and a hundred new immigrants on the other side of town to hang on to that job . And you are going to draw the inescapable conclusions that it's every man for himself . Solidarity be damned ...
... going to be pitted against your fellow workers and a hundred new immigrants on the other side of town to hang on to that job . And you are going to draw the inescapable conclusions that it's every man for himself . Solidarity be damned ...
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... going on strike when they are forced to teach classes again , but our self - employed electrical contractor is not about to resist the system , not with Mastercard on his back and a $ 3,000 Home Depot tab for tool replacement and ...
... going on strike when they are forced to teach classes again , but our self - employed electrical contractor is not about to resist the system , not with Mastercard on his back and a $ 3,000 Home Depot tab for tool replacement and ...
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