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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... hard - core of the town's working - class neighborhoods , where you are more likely to find the $ 20,000 - a - year laborer and the $ 14,000 - a - year fast - food worker . I grew up here , my dad worked at a gas station here , and my ...
... hard - core of the town's working - class neighborhoods , where you are more likely to find the $ 20,000 - a - year laborer and the $ 14,000 - a - year fast - food worker . I grew up here , my dad worked at a gas station here , and my ...
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... 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 alcohol , Jesus ...
... 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 alcohol , Jesus ...
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... hard - edged anger of those with more to lose . Which ain't a lot , brother , when your household income hovers around $ 30,000 or 35,000 with both people working . Many are working poor but kid themselves that they are middle class ...
... hard - edged anger of those with more to lose . Which ain't a lot , brother , when your household income hovers around $ 30,000 or 35,000 with both people working . Many are working poor but kid themselves that they are middle class ...
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... hard working life and had a philosophy of never wanting any handout from the government , you too would be conservative . By " conservative , " I do not mean a wildeyed neocon . I mean that you would be cautious and traditional enough ...
... hard working life and had a philosophy of never wanting any handout from the government , you too would be conservative . By " conservative , " I do not mean a wildeyed neocon . I mean that you would be cautious and traditional enough ...
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... hard look at the ways globalism plays out for people in this town . In Chapter 3 we buy a mobile home and in the next chapter we visit the heartland gun culture that few gun control advocates ever set foot in . After our get - together ...
... hard look at the ways globalism plays out for people in this town . In Chapter 3 we buy a mobile home and in the next chapter we visit the heartland gun culture that few gun control advocates ever set foot in . After our get - together ...
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