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

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

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 ...

Sen. JD Vance’s improbable rise to becoming Donald Trump’s running mate started with his bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy”—an unsparing look at poverty and economic malaise in working ...

Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance will go head-to-head for 90 minutes on Tuesday night at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City for the only vice presidential debate before the Nov ...

‘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 ...

“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 ...

Both JD Vance and Tim Walz have become national figures ... the up-by-the-bootstraps grandchild of hillbillies — in an appeal to the values and traditions of the heartland.

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 ...