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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... uncultured mob that trounced them in 2004. They have watched panel discussions on PBS . They have argued about where political strategy went wrong . But the one thing the thinking left and urban liberals have not done INTRODUCTION.
... uncultured mob that trounced them in 2004. They have watched panel discussions on PBS . They have argued about where political strategy went wrong . But the one thing the thinking left and urban liberals have not done INTRODUCTION.
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... thing from birth and goes downhill from there . If nothing else , though , Winchester is a marvelous place from which to observe this nationwhere the oldest and the newest America and all the vestigial mutant stages in between exist in ...
... thing from birth and goes downhill from there . If nothing else , though , Winchester is a marvelous place from which to observe this nationwhere the oldest and the newest America and all the vestigial mutant stages in between exist in ...
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... things white working people 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 ...
... things white working people 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 ...
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... thing . If your highschool - dropout daddy busted his ass for small bucks and never read a book and your mama was a waitress , chances are you are not going to grow up to be president of the United States , regardless of what your ...
... thing . If your highschool - dropout daddy busted his ass for small bucks and never read a book and your mama was a waitress , chances are you are not going to grow up to be president of the United States , regardless of what your ...
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... thing to do with the color of your collar and not nearly as much to do with income as most people think , or in many cases even with whether you are self - employed . These days the working class consists of truck drivers , cashiers ...
... thing to do with the color of your collar and not nearly as much to do with income as most people think , or in many cases even with whether you are self - employed . These days the working class consists of truck drivers , cashiers ...
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