Rainbow pie

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"Combining recollection, stories, accounts, remembrance, and analysis, the book offers an intimate look at what Americans lost in the massive and orchestrated post-war social and economic shift from an agricultural to an urban consumer society. Along the way, he also provides insights into how 'the second and third generation of displaced agrarians', as Gore Vidal described them, now fuel the discontent of America's politically conservative, God-fearing, Obama-hating 'red-staters'. These are the gun-owning, uninsured, underemployed white tribes inhabiting America's urban and suburban heartland: the ones who never got a slice of the pie during the good times, and the ones hit hardest by America's bad times, and who hit back during election years. Their 'tough work and tougher luck' story stretches over generations, and Bageant tells it here with poignancy, indignation, and tinder-dry wit"--Page 4 of cover.

subjects: Social conditions,  Poor whites,  Biography,  Poor,  Internal migrants,  Rural-urban migration,  Social change,  Social classes,  Social classes, united states,  West virginia, social conditions,  West virginia, biography,  Whites,  Poor, united states,  United states, biography,  United states, social conditions, 21st century

People: Joe Bageant

Places: United States

Times: 20th century,  21st century