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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... 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 to vote for the man who looks strong enough ...
... 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 to vote for the man who looks strong enough ...
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... Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations . My dad was a working man with an eighth - grade education , the same as my mother , who worked in textile mills and garment factories . The whole time I was ...
... Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations . My dad was a working man with an eighth - grade education , the same as my mother , who worked in textile mills and garment factories . The whole time I was ...
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... never needed entitlement programs , to be against them . For liberals born in that quarter , being against them is only slightly harder , morally speaking . You endorse affirmative action at the cocktail party , then bitch afterward ...
... never needed entitlement programs , to be against them . For liberals born in that quarter , being against them is only slightly harder , morally speaking . You endorse affirmative action at the cocktail party , then bitch afterward ...
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... never win . These Americans love their guns for perfectly legitimate , if not always comforting , cultural reasons that go clear back to that battle - hardened swarm of Calvinist Border Scots who came to America , happy enough to kill ...
... never win . These Americans love their guns for perfectly legitimate , if not always comforting , cultural reasons that go clear back to that battle - hardened swarm of Calvinist Border Scots who came to America , happy enough to kill ...
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... Never shack up with a divorced woman who is two house payments behind and swears you are the best sex she ever had . 2. Never eat cocktail weenies out of the urinal , no matter how big the bet gets . As you can see , learning through ...
... Never shack up with a divorced woman who is two house payments behind and swears you are the best sex she ever had . 2. Never eat cocktail weenies out of the urinal , no matter how big the bet gets . As you can see , learning through ...
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