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Vance helped perpetuate stereotypes about the “lazy poor” in his memoir when he shared his frustration about discovering, at 17 years old, that there are adults on welfare who dare to own cell...
Vance did not grow up in Appalachia, but in suburban Ohio, in a house in a neighborhood considered "middle class" at the time he was growing up.
Immediately after the October 2024 vice presidential debate, social media users revived a rumor that JD Vance, the Republican running mate of former U.S. President Donald Trump, had grown up...
J.D. Vance grew up in a Rust Belt town in Ohio, in a family from the hills of eastern Kentucky. His memoir details the social isolation, poverty and addiction that afflict poor white...
The reality – one that Vance only subtly acknowledges in his memoir – is that he is not poor. Nor is he a hillbilly. He grew up firmly in Ohio’s middle class.
A 2017 Brookings Institution report noted that "J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy became a national bestseller for its raw, emotional portrait of growing up in and eventually out of a poor rural community riddled by drug addiction and instability."
As many people have pointed out, Vance didn’t actually grow up as a fabled “hillbilly”; he merely spent some of his summers in Appalachia as a child. When he’s describing the small...
Many reviewers of Hillbilly Elegy praised Vance for providing insight into the lives of this group of Americans. Some contended that the poverty and discontent Vance described explained why working-class whites supported a political outsider like Trump.
The book, which reflects on the circumstances of Vance’s family and the community in which he grew up, sparked discussions about the complexities of poverty in Appalachia and Rust Belt...
When JD Vance says he came from nothing, he really means it. This is how JD Vance took his experiences as a self-proclaimed hillbilly and used them to write a bestselling book and propel himself to the top of politics. In his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, Mr Vance, born into an impoverished household in southern Ohio, shares stories about his chaotic family life and about communities that had ...