Joe Bageant

Joe Bageant (born 1946) is an American author and columnist known for his book Deer Hunting With Jesus.

Bageant was originally raised in Winchester, Virginia. He left Winchester and worked as a journalist and editor. In 2001, Bageant moved back to Winchester.

In Deer Hunting With Jesus Bageant discusses how Democrats have lost the political support of poor rural whites and how the Republican Party has convinced these individuals to vote against their own economic self-interest. The book is mainly centered on his hometown, Winchester.

In 2010, Bageant published a similarly themed book, Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir, ISBN 978-1846272578. Bageant used his extended family’s post WW II years experience to illustrate social class in America. The book examines the post-war journey of 22 million rural Americans into the cities, where they became, the author argues, the foundation of a permanent white underclass and comprise much of today’s heartland “red state” voters. Bageant frequently appears as a commentator on radio and television internationally, and writes a progressive online columns distributed to hundreds of blogs and websites.

External links

• Joe Bageant
• "Why rednecks may rule the world" by Joe Bageant, BBC Today, 6 September 2008
• Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse" By Joe Bageant, The Greanville Post, July 9, 2010.
• The Fearless Plain By Joe Bageant, The Greanville Post, May 21, 2010