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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... middle class - partly out of pride and partly because of the long - running national lie that most Americans are middle class . Being born lower class in working America makes some of INTRODUCTION 5.
... middle class - partly out of pride and partly because of the long - running national lie that most Americans are middle class . Being born lower class in working America makes some of INTRODUCTION 5.
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... middle class and one of the liberals at whom I so often poke fun . But a person's roots do not disappear just because he or she managed to narrowly cross the class lines that the American national story line claims do not exist . And ...
... middle class and one of the liberals at whom I so often poke fun . But a person's roots do not disappear just because he or she managed to narrowly cross the class lines that the American national story line claims do not exist . And ...
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... Middle American standards . The 20 percent of Winchester who can honestly be called middle class shop at the more upscale Martin's , not here at this end of town , where you cannot buy an avocado or a leek , whole - grain bread or a ...
... Middle American standards . The 20 percent of Winchester who can honestly be called middle class shop at the more upscale Martin's , not here at this end of town , where you cannot buy an avocado or a leek , whole - grain bread or a ...
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... 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 class . " Class , " however , is defined ...
... 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 class . " Class , " however , is defined ...
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