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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... her church rallied to buy her and Eddie a secondhand truck after theirs was repossessed : " It needs a spare tire , but we can come up with that . " " Praises be to Him ! " exclaims the clerk 6 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
... her church rallied to buy her and Eddie a secondhand truck after theirs was repossessed : " It needs a spare tire , but we can come up with that . " " Praises be to Him ! " exclaims the clerk 6 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
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... truck drivers , cashiers , electricians , medical technicians , and all sorts of people conditioned by our system not to think of themselves as working class . There are no clear lines , which is one reason why the INTRODUCTION 11.
... truck drivers , cashiers , electricians , medical technicians , and all sorts of people conditioned by our system not to think of themselves as working class . There are no clear lines , which is one reason why the INTRODUCTION 11.
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... truck driver who owns his own rig may or may possibly be a member of the middle class , but a truck driver who works for a shipping company is working class . A self - employed electrical contractor is not a small business person or an ...
... truck driver who owns his own rig may or may possibly be a member of the middle class , but a truck driver who works for a shipping company is working class . A self - employed electrical contractor is not a small business person or an ...
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... truck with no spare tire - exist in every state in our nation . Maybe the next time we on the left encounter such seemingly self - screwing , stubborn , God - obsessed folks , we can be open to their trials , understand the complexity ...
... truck with no spare tire - exist in every state in our nation . Maybe the next time we on the left encounter such seemingly self - screwing , stubborn , God - obsessed folks , we can be open to their trials , understand the complexity ...
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