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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... once the redneck buffer for white Winchester . Everyone in town knew which streets represented the color line . Those same streets are becoming black and Latino now , and you can see the families who live there going through the same ...
... once the redneck buffer for white Winchester . Everyone in town knew which streets represented the color line . Those same streets are becoming black and Latino now , and you can see the families who live there going through the same ...
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... once did to proclaim : " We might be poor but we ain't coloreds . " Admittedly , my people are a little seedier than most ; this is after all the South , albeit the northernmost point of the South . But their needs - affordable health ...
... once did to proclaim : " We might be poor but we ain't coloreds . " Admittedly , my people are a little seedier than most ; this is after all the South , albeit the northernmost point of the South . But their needs - affordable health ...
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... once considered college until finally , years after I'd left home , the last shudders of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society thrust the opportunity on my class and generation . It is a class thing . If your highschool - dropout daddy busted ...
... once considered college until finally , years after I'd left home , the last shudders of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society thrust the opportunity on my class and generation . It is a class thing . If your highschool - dropout daddy busted ...
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... once replied , " Work ? Lady , I cain't walk nor half see . I cain't even get enough breath to sing a song . What the hell kinda work you think I can do ? Be a tire stop in a parkin ' lot ? " Not one to be moved by mere human misery ...
... once replied , " Work ? Lady , I cain't walk nor half see . I cain't even get enough breath to sing a song . What the hell kinda work you think I can do ? Be a tire stop in a parkin ' lot ? " Not one to be moved by mere human misery ...
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... Once , in Sonora , Mexico , I got very sick among the Sari Indians and needed a doctor . Every Sari Indian had national health care , but the American crapping his guts out behind their shacks , a man who made fifty times their annual ...
... Once , in Sonora , Mexico , I got very sick among the Sari Indians and needed a doctor . Every Sari Indian had national health care , but the American crapping his guts out behind their shacks , a man who made fifty times their annual ...
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