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Contemporary freight-train drifters have found the unlikely antidote to America’s problemsA couple of years ago in the muggy heat of early summer, I found myself stuck in the rain in the middle of the night on the edge of some west-Texas rail yards. I was trying to stay dry by wrapping myself in a scrounged wool poncho, my belly full of the cold beans and warm beer I’d just had for dinner. As a middle-aged professor of sociology at a big American university, this wasn’t exactly business as usual.
Updated July 21, 20228 min read