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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... half the driver his daddy was . The area is solidly fundamentalist Christian and neoconservative , steeped in the gloomy ultraProtestant assumption that man is an evil , worthless thing from birth and goes downhill from there . If ...
... half the driver his daddy was . The area is solidly fundamentalist Christian and neoconservative , steeped in the gloomy ultraProtestant assumption that man is an evil , worthless thing from birth and goes downhill from there . If ...
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... the government's own count . To be white and poor or just making it is a paradox in America . Whites , especially white males , are supposed to have an advantage they exploit mercilessly . Yet slightly over half of 8 DEER HUNTING WITH ...
... the government's own count . To be white and poor or just making it is a paradox in America . Whites , especially white males , are supposed to have an advantage they exploit mercilessly . Yet slightly over half of 8 DEER HUNTING WITH ...
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... half find employment for at least half the year ; public assistance accounts for only one - quarter of the income of poor Americans . Beyond that , the distinction between poor and working poor may well be a meaningless moral ...
... half find employment for at least half the year ; public assistance accounts for only one - quarter of the income of poor Americans . Beyond that , the distinction between poor and working poor may well be a meaningless moral ...
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... half the southerners in my generation and social class . She has cleaned houses and waited tables and paid into Social Security all her life . But for the past three years Dottie has been unable to work because of her health . Dot's ...
... half the southerners in my generation and social class . She has cleaned houses and waited tables and paid into Social Security all her life . But for the past three years Dottie has been unable to work because of her health . Dot's ...
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... half - naked Indians in Latin America eating grubs and scrubbing their codpieces on river rocks who were a whole lot happier , and in some cases more cared for by their governments . Once , in Sonora , Mexico , I got very sick among the ...
... half - naked Indians in Latin America eating grubs and scrubbing their codpieces on river rocks who were a whole lot happier , and in some cases more cared for by their governments . Once , in Sonora , Mexico , I got very sick among the ...
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