JD Vance’s rural working-class upbringing, as chronicled in his bestseller ‘Hillbilly Elegy’, fits right in with the lived ...

“There are no hills, much less hillbillies.” It was Vance’s grandparents who’d moved away from the mountains of Kentucky — as teenagers searching for a better life in the years after ...

In Springfield, Vance took the heroic story of his Middletown hillbillies, and flipped it on its head. It’s not that Vance lets his “people” off easy. If you’ve read Hillbilly, the ...

Explore the Hillbilly Elegy controversy, where JD Vance’s portrayal of Appalachia sparked debates on stereotypes, culture, ...

“Pretty much everybody—besides Vance himself—came off as uneducated, not industrious at all, closed minded. Just the stereotype of the hillbilly. What really offended me was he kept saying we ...

Vance’s former dislike for his current running ... and machinists and mill workers during more recent times. Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks or white trash. I call them neighbors ...

‘We’re hillbillies and we’re proud of it.’ And I think this community shows you why people are proud of Appalachian values.” Vance then expressed his belief that the community would be ...

The junior senator from Ohio shot to fame writing about his hard upbringing and morphed from a 'never-Trumper' into a Maga ...

“I've always been open and sometimes, of course, I've disagreed with the president but I've also been extremely open about the fact that I was wrong about Donald Trump," Vance said. Se ...

Mr. Vance has also worked on this by recruiting ... “Mamaw” — “the name we hillbillies gave to our grandmothers,” he explained in his convention address. His book was treated by many ...

It might sound like a story about a mother’s and a sister’s self-sacrificing love for a cherished boy; Mr Vance tells it as a story about how hillbillies waste more money than they have on ...

JD Vance’s story is much like those in rural Lycoming County. The Republican vice presidential nominee and U.S. Senator from ...