NEW YORK (AP) — At the heart of J.D. Vance's journey from venture capitalist to vice presidential candidate is a memoir he first thought of in graduate...
made him a national celebrity soon after its publication in the summer of 2016, and became a cultural talking point afterIn “ Hillbilly Elegy ,” Vance reflects on the transformation of Appalachia from reliably Democratic to reliably Republican, sharing stories about his chaotic family life and about communities that had declined and seemed to lose hope.
“Most downtrodden whites are not conservative male Protestants from Appalachia,” Smarsh wrote. “That sometimes seems the only concept of them that the American consciousness can contain: tucked away in a remote mountain shanty like a coal-dust-covered ghost, as though white poverty isn’t always right in front of us, swiping our credit cards at a Target in Denver or asking for cash on a Los Angeles sidewalk.
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