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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... POOR 2 Republicans by Default REDNECK PRIDE AND FEAR IN AN AGE OF OUTSOURCING CONTENTS 3 The Deep - Fried , Double - Wide Lifestyle WHATEVER IT TAKES , THE MORTGAGE RACKET WILL PUT YOU UNDER YOUR OWN ROOF 4 Valley of the Gun BLACK ...
... POOR 2 Republicans by Default REDNECK PRIDE AND FEAR IN AN AGE OF OUTSOURCING CONTENTS 3 The Deep - Fried , Double - Wide Lifestyle WHATEVER IT TAKES , THE MORTGAGE RACKET WILL PUT YOU UNDER YOUR OWN ROOF 4 Valley of the Gun BLACK ...
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... poor white girl from down the street . My forebears are buried here , and all my ghosts are here - the ghosts of 250 years of ancestors , the ghosts of old love affairs , and the ghost of my youth . I know everyone's last name , whose ...
... poor white girl from down the street . My forebears are buried here , and all my ghosts are here - the ghosts of 250 years of ancestors , the ghosts of old love affairs , and the ghost of my youth . I know everyone's last name , whose ...
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... poor whites who owned them in the fifties and early sixties , when it was possible to buy a house on a low - wage working couple's income . They place foil - covered flowerpots on porches , and they crisply cut the earth along sidewalks ...
... poor whites who owned them in the fifties and early sixties , when it was possible to buy a house on a low - wage working couple's income . They place foil - covered flowerpots on porches , and they crisply cut the earth along sidewalks ...
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... poor : conservative , politically misinformed or oblivious , and patriotic to their own detriment . Not that I am presently poor . In the course of that circuitous journey between leaving Winchester , penniless and dumber than tree bark ...
... poor : conservative , politically misinformed or oblivious , and patriotic to their own detriment . Not that I am presently poor . In the course of that circuitous journey between leaving Winchester , penniless and dumber than tree bark ...
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... poor man's heroin . The clerk is not doing much better ; I've seen her make purchases with food stamps as she goes off shift . Every one of them has worked all his or her life and lost ground for the past twenty - five years by Middle ...
... poor man's heroin . The clerk is not doing much better ; I've seen her make purchases with food stamps as she goes off shift . Every one of them has worked all his or her life and lost ground for the past twenty - five years by Middle ...
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