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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... numbers are growing . ( By the way , most poor people work . About half find employment for at least half the year ... number and getting poorer . Everyone else is pretty much stuck , regardless of the Bush administration's crowing about ...
... numbers are growing . ( By the way , most poor people work . About half find employment for at least half the year ... number and getting poorer . Everyone else is pretty much stuck , regardless of the Bush administration's crowing about ...
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... numbers , " working class " might best be defined like this : You do not have power over your work . You do not control when you work , how much you get paid , how fast you work , or whether you will be cut loose from your job at the ...
... numbers , " working class " might best be defined like this : You do not have power over your work . You do not control when you work , how much you get paid , how fast you work , or whether you will be cut loose from your job at the ...
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... numbers on the left are comfortably ensconced in the true middle class , which is only about 20 percent to 30 percent of Americans , as we shall see . From that vantage point , liberals currently view working whites as angry ...
... numbers on the left are comfortably ensconced in the true middle class , which is only about 20 percent to 30 percent of Americans , as we shall see . From that vantage point , liberals currently view working whites as angry ...
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