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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... sure of it . I know them . I know which ones cannot get full - time hours at the plant , and I know which one's kid has " a dope problem , " as she calls it , and was busted for OxyContin the poor man's heroin . The clerk is not doing ...
... sure of it . I know them . I know which ones cannot get full - time hours at the plant , and I know which one's kid has " a dope problem , " as she calls it , and was busted for OxyContin the poor man's heroin . The clerk is not doing ...
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... sure . But that does not negate the fact that there are at least 19 million poor and working - poor whites and their numbers are growing . ( By the way , most poor people work . About half find employment for at least half the year ...
... sure . But that does not negate the fact that there are at least 19 million poor and working - poor whites and their numbers are growing . ( By the way , most poor people work . About half find employment for at least half the year ...
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... sure , though : Dink is tough enough to have done it . ( To readers who wonder whether people really have names such as Dink and Pootie : Hell , yes ! Not only do we have a Dink and a Pootie in Winchester , the town that stars in this ...
... sure , though : Dink is tough enough to have done it . ( To readers who wonder whether people really have names such as Dink and Pootie : Hell , yes ! Not only do we have a Dink and a Pootie in Winchester , the town that stars in this ...
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