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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... own count . To be white and poor or just making it is a paradox in America . Whites , especially white males , are supposed to have an advantage they exploit mercilessly . Yet slightly over half of 8 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
... own count . To be white and poor or just making it is a paradox in America . Whites , especially white males , are supposed to have an advantage they exploit mercilessly . Yet slightly over half of 8 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
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... poor people in the United States are white . Poor whites outnumber all poor minorities combined . Black poverty consumes a larger percentage of black society , to be sure . But that does not negate the fact that there are at least 19 ...
... poor people in the United States are white . Poor whites outnumber all poor minorities combined . Black poverty consumes a larger percentage of black society , to be sure . But that does not negate the fact that there are at least 19 ...
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... poor whites any more than the fact that most millionaire rappers are black helps poor blacks ? Minority advocates can get the " poverty rate " ( that ludicrous federal guideline of less - than - subsistence income ) of blacks down to ...
... poor whites any more than the fact that most millionaire rappers are black helps poor blacks ? Minority advocates can get the " poverty rate " ( that ludicrous federal guideline of less - than - subsistence income ) of blacks down to ...
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... POOR PRINTED IN U.S.A " 73 virgins in arab heaven and not a dam one in this bar ! " -Men's room wall , Royal Lunch Faced with working - class life in towns such as. American Serfs INSIDE THE WHITE GHETTO OF THE WORKING POOR.
... POOR PRINTED IN U.S.A " 73 virgins in arab heaven and not a dam one in this bar ! " -Men's room wall , Royal Lunch Faced with working - class life in towns such as. American Serfs INSIDE THE WHITE GHETTO OF THE WORKING POOR.
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