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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... redneck . As a blue - state man with a redstate childhood , I have been waiting for this book for years . We ignore its message at our peril . " -Sherman Alexie , author of Reservation Blues and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in ...
... redneck . As a blue - state man with a redstate childhood , I have been waiting for this book for years . We ignore its message at our peril . " -Sherman Alexie , author of Reservation Blues and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in ...
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... 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 POWDER AND BUCKSKIN IN HEARTLAND ...
... 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 POWDER AND BUCKSKIN IN HEARTLAND ...
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... redneck blue - collar legions , and other cultural Visigoths stirred behind distant battlements . In university towns across the country , in San Francisco , Seattle , and Boulder , in that bluest of blue strongholds , New York City ...
... redneck blue - collar legions , and other cultural Visigoths stirred behind distant battlements . In university towns across the country , in San Francisco , Seattle , and Boulder , in that bluest of blue strongholds , New York City ...
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... 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 struggles ...
... 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 struggles ...
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... rednecks , bred from generations of low - earning uneducated rednecks , clustered in whole neighborhoods of the same . The middle class , both liberals and conservatives , are utterly dependent on my people , the great throng of the ...
... rednecks , bred from generations of low - earning uneducated rednecks , clustered in whole neighborhoods of the same . The middle class , both liberals and conservatives , are utterly dependent on my people , the great throng of the ...
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