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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance is an account of the struggles of white working-class Americans in the post-industrial United States. The author offers a message of hope by telling the story of how he went from growing up poor in Ohio’s Rust Belt to graduating from Yale Law School.
James David (JD) Vance’s family is of Scots-Irish descent. His people have a long history of enduring poverty and hardship. Since the eighteenth century in the United States, the Scots-Irish have been plantation workers, sharecroppers, miners, and factory and millworkers. Many settled or have roots in Appalachia. Other Americans sometimes consider JD’s people hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash.
[1] As industrial manufacturing has declined in recent decades, hillbillies have been hit especially hard.
JD was born in Middletown, Ohio, but his first real home was with his grandparents in Jackson, Kentucky, at the center of Appalachian coal country. JD spent summers and other times there with his family until he was 12. In Jackson, JD was proud to be the grandson of the best mechanic in town, his Papaw, and a tough lady named Bonnie Vance, his Mamaw. When she was a little girl, Mamaw shot a man and nearly killed him for trying to run off with her family’s cow.
Mamaw
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