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J.D. Vance Quote: “I just wanted reassurance. “Mamaw, does God love us?” She hung her head, gave me a hug, and began to cry.”

51. “I just wanted reassurance. “Mamaw, does God love us?” She hung her head, gave me a hug, and began to cry.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Entire volumes are devoted to the phenomenon of “resilient children” – kids who prosper despite an unstable home because they have the social support of a loving adult. I.”

52. “Entire volumes are devoted to the phenomenon of “resilient children” – kids who prosper despite an unstable home because they have the social support of a loving adult. I.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Psychologists call it “learned helplessness” when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life.”

53. “Psychologists call it “learned helplessness” when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “My primary duty was to lift the floor tile onto a shipping pallet and prepare that pallet for departure. It wasn’t easy, but it paid thirteen dollars an hour and I needed the money, so I took the job and collected as many overtime shifts and extra hours as I could.”

54. “My primary duty was to lift the floor tile onto a shipping pallet and prepare that pallet for departure. It wasn’t easy, but it paid thirteen dollars an hour and I needed the money, so I took the job and collected as many overtime shifts and extra hours as I could.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The theology she taught was unsophisticated, but it provided a message I needed to hear. To coast through life was to squander my God-given talent, so I had to work hard. I had to take care of my family because Christian duty demanded it. I needed to forgive, not just for my mother’s sake but for my own. I should never despair, for God had a plan. Mamaw.”

55. “The theology she taught was unsophisticated, but it provided a message I needed to hear. To coast through life was to squander my God-given talent, so I had to work hard. I had to take care of my family because Christian duty demanded it. I needed to forgive, not just for my mother’s sake but for my own. I should never despair, for God had a plan. Mamaw.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Mom was never much of a math person, but she took me to the public library before I could read, got me a library card, showed me how to use it, and always made sure I had access to kids’ books at home. In other words, despite all of the environmental pressures from my neighborhood and community, I received a different message at home. And that just might have saved me.”

56. “Mom was never much of a math person, but she took me to the public library before I could read, got me a library card, showed me how to use it, and always made sure I had access to kids’ books at home. In other words, despite all of the environmental pressures from my neighborhood and community, I received a different message at home. And that just might have saved me.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The most depressing part is that relationship instability, like home chaos, is a vicious cycle. As sociologists Paula Fornby and Andrew Cherlin found, a “growing body of literature suggests that children who experience multiple transitions in family structure may fare worse developmentally than children raised in stable two-parent families and perhaps even than children raised in stable, single-parent families.” For.”

57. “The most depressing part is that relationship instability, like home chaos, is a vicious cycle. As sociologists Paula Fornby and Andrew Cherlin found, a “growing body of literature suggests that children who experience multiple transitions in family structure may fare worse developmentally than children raised in stable two-parent families and perhaps even than children raised in stable, single-parent families.” For.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated – the switch flipped indefinitely. We are constantly ready to fight or flee, because there is constant exposure to the bear, whether that bear is an alcoholic dad or an unhinged mom. We become hard-wired for conflict. And that wiring remains, even when there’s no more conflict to be had.”

58. “For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated – the switch flipped indefinitely. We are constantly ready to fight or flee, because there is constant exposure to the bear, whether that bear is an alcoholic dad or an unhinged mom. We become hard-wired for conflict. And that wiring remains, even when there’s no more conflict to be had.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “God helps those who help themselves. This was the wisdom of the Book of Mamaw.”

59. “God helps those who help themselves. This was the wisdom of the Book of Mamaw.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “At Yale Law School, I felt like my spaceship had crashed in Oz. People would say with a straight face that a surgeon mother and engineer father were middle-class. In Middletown, $160,000 is an unfathomable salary; at Yale Law School, students expect to earn that amount in the first year after law school. Many of them are already worried that it won’t be enough.”

60. “At Yale Law School, I felt like my spaceship had crashed in Oz. People would say with a straight face that a surgeon mother and engineer father were middle-class. In Middletown, $160,000 is an unfathomable salary; at Yale Law School, students expect to earn that amount in the first year after law school. Many of them are already worried that it won’t be enough.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “I almost failed out of high school.”

61. “I almost failed out of high school.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “I tried to go to a counselor, but it was just too weird. Talking to some stranger about my feelings made me want to vomit. I did go to the library...”

62. “I tried to go to a counselor, but it was just too weird. Talking to some stranger about my feelings made me want to vomit. I did go to the library...”

J.D. Vance Quote: “In my worst moments, I convince myself that there is no exit, and no matter how much I fight old demons, they are as much an inheritance as my blue eyes and brown hair.”

63. “In my worst moments, I convince myself that there is no exit, and no matter how much I fight old demons, they are as much an inheritance as my blue eyes and brown hair.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “There were two kinds of people: those whom I’d behave around because I wanted to impress them and those whom I’d behave around to avoid embarrassing myself. The latter people were outsiders, and Kentucky had none of them.”

64. “There were two kinds of people: those whom I’d behave around because I wanted to impress them and those whom I’d behave around to avoid embarrassing myself. The latter people were outsiders, and Kentucky had none of them.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “These are the lies we tell ourselves to solve the cognitive dissonance – the broken connection between the world we see and the values we preach.”

65. “These are the lies we tell ourselves to solve the cognitive dissonance – the broken connection between the world we see and the values we preach.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “In France, the percentage of children exposed to three or more maternal partners is 0.5 percent – about one in two hundred. The second highest share is 2.6 percent, in Sweden, or about one in forty. In the United States, the figure is a shocking 8.2 percent – about one in twelve – and the figure is even higher in the working class.”

66. “In France, the percentage of children exposed to three or more maternal partners is 0.5 percent – about one in two hundred. The second highest share is 2.6 percent, in Sweden, or about one in forty. In the United States, the figure is a shocking 8.2 percent – about one in twelve – and the figure is even higher in the working class.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “No person’s childhood gives him or her a perpetual moral get-out-of-jail-free card – not Lindsay, not Aunt Wee, not me, and not Mom.”

67. “No person’s childhood gives him or her a perpetual moral get-out-of-jail-free card – not Lindsay, not Aunt Wee, not me, and not Mom.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “As a teacher at my old high school told me recently, “They want us to be shepherds to these kids. But no one wants to talk about the fact that many of them are raised by wolves.”

68. “As a teacher at my old high school told me recently, “They want us to be shepherds to these kids. But no one wants to talk about the fact that many of them are raised by wolves.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “This is just one version of how the world of successful people actually works. But social capital is all around us. Those who tap into it and use it prosper. Those who don’t are running life’s race with a major handicap. This is a serious problem for kids like me.”

69. “This is just one version of how the world of successful people actually works. But social capital is all around us. Those who tap into it and use it prosper. Those who don’t are running life’s race with a major handicap. This is a serious problem for kids like me.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “I don’t know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better.”

70. “I don’t know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “In the middle of the Bible Belt, active church attendance is actually quite low.”

71. “In the middle of the Bible Belt, active church attendance is actually quite low.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were not the same.”

72. “He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were not the same.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “However you want to define these two groups and their approach to giving – rich and poor; educated and uneducated; upper-class and working-class – their members increasingly occupy two separate worlds. As.”

73. “However you want to define these two groups and their approach to giving – rich and poor; educated and uneducated; upper-class and working-class – their members increasingly occupy two separate worlds. As.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Thrift is inimical to our being. We spend to pretend that we’re upper-class.”

74. “Thrift is inimical to our being. We spend to pretend that we’re upper-class.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Mamaw always resented the hillbilly stereotype – the idea that our people were a bunch of slobbering morons. But the fact is that I was remarkably ignorant of how to get ahead. Not.”

75. “Mamaw always resented the hillbilly stereotype – the idea that our people were a bunch of slobbering morons. But the fact is that I was remarkably ignorant of how to get ahead. Not.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Not all of the white working class struggles. I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores and social pressures. My grandparents embodied one type: old-fashioned, quietly faithful, self-reliant, hardworking. My mother and, increasingly, the entire neighborhood embodied another: consumerist, isolated, angry, distrustful. There.”

76. “Not all of the white working class struggles. I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores and social pressures. My grandparents embodied one type: old-fashioned, quietly faithful, self-reliant, hardworking. My mother and, increasingly, the entire neighborhood embodied another: consumerist, isolated, angry, distrustful. There.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “People like Brian and me don’t lose contact with our parents because we don’t care; we lose contact with them to survive. We never stop loving, and we never lose hope that our loved ones will change. Rather, we are forced, either by wisdom or by the law, to take the path of self-preservation. What.”

77. “People like Brian and me don’t lose contact with our parents because we don’t care; we lose contact with them to survive. We never stop loving, and we never lose hope that our loved ones will change. Rather, we are forced, either by wisdom or by the law, to take the path of self-preservation. What.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.”

78. “Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Those who could – generally the well educated, wealthy, or well connected – left, leaving behind communities of poor people. These remaining folks were the “truly disadvantaged” – unable to find good jobs on their own and surrounded by communities that offered little in the way of connections or social support. Wilson’s.”

79. “Those who could – generally the well educated, wealthy, or well connected – left, leaving behind communities of poor people. These remaining folks were the “truly disadvantaged” – unable to find good jobs on their own and surrounded by communities that offered little in the way of connections or social support. Wilson’s.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “For there are no villains in this story. There’s just a ragtag band of hillbillies struggling to find their way – both for their sake and, by the grace of God, for mine.”

80. “For there are no villains in this story. There’s just a ragtag band of hillbillies struggling to find their way – both for their sake and, by the grace of God, for mine.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Sometimes, honey, you have to fight, even when you’re not defending yourself. Sometimes it’s just the right thing to do.”

81. “Sometimes, honey, you have to fight, even when you’re not defending yourself. Sometimes it’s just the right thing to do.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Section 8 vouchers ought to be administered in a way that doesn’t segregate the poor into little enclaves.”

82. “Section 8 vouchers ought to be administered in a way that doesn’t segregate the poor into little enclaves.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “We tend to overstate and to understate, to glorify the good and ignore the bad in ourselves.”

83. “We tend to overstate and to understate, to glorify the good and ignore the bad in ourselves.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault. My dad, for example, has never disparaged hard work, but he mistrusts some of the most obvious paths to upward mobility. When.”

84. “Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault. My dad, for example, has never disparaged hard work, but he mistrusts some of the most obvious paths to upward mobility. When.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “There is nothing lower than the poor stealing from the poor. It’s hard enough as it is. We sure as hell don’t need to make it even harder on each other.”

85. “There is nothing lower than the poor stealing from the poor. It’s hard enough as it is. We sure as hell don’t need to make it even harder on each other.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The list goes on. It’s impossible to know how many people believe one or many of these stories. But if a third of our community questions the president’s origin – despite all evidence to the contrary – it’s a good bet that the other conspiracies have broader currency than we’d like. This isn’t some libertarian mistrust of government policy, which is healthy in any democracy. This is deep skepticism of the very institutions of our society. And it’s becoming more and more mainstream.”

86. “The list goes on. It’s impossible to know how many people believe one or many of these stories. But if a third of our community questions the president’s origin – despite all evidence to the contrary – it’s a good bet that the other conspiracies have broader currency than we’d like. This isn’t some libertarian mistrust of government policy, which is healthy in any democracy. This is deep skepticism of the very institutions of our society. And it’s becoming more and more mainstream.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “We felt trapped in two seemingly unwinnable wars, in which a disproportionate share of the fighters came from our neighborhood, and in an economy that failed to deliver the most basic promise of the American Dream – a steady wage.”

87. “We felt trapped in two seemingly unwinnable wars, in which a disproportionate share of the fighters came from our neighborhood, and in an economy that failed to deliver the most basic promise of the American Dream – a steady wage.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “I’m not arguing that we deserve more sympathy than other folks. This is not a story about why white people have more to complain about than black people or any other group. That said, I do hope that readers of this book will be able to take from it an appreciation of how class and family affect the poor without filtering their views through a racial prism.”

88. “I’m not arguing that we deserve more sympathy than other folks. This is not a story about why white people have more to complain about than black people or any other group. That said, I do hope that readers of this book will be able to take from it an appreciation of how class and family affect the poor without filtering their views through a racial prism.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “I’m not saying ability doesn’t matter. It certainly helps. But there’s something powerful about realizing that you’ve undersold yourself-that somehow your mind confused lack of effort for inability.”

89. “I’m not saying ability doesn’t matter. It certainly helps. But there’s something powerful about realizing that you’ve undersold yourself-that somehow your mind confused lack of effort for inability.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “I believe we hillbillies are the toughest goddamned people on this earth. We take an electric saw to the hide of those who insult our mother. We.”

90. “I believe we hillbillies are the toughest goddamned people on this earth. We take an electric saw to the hide of those who insult our mother. We.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us aren’t. He wears suits to his job while we wear overalls, if we’re lucky enough to have a job at all. His wife tells us that we shouldn’t be feeding our children certain foods, and we hate her for it – not because we think she’s wrong but because we know she’s right.”

91. “Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us aren’t. He wears suits to his job while we wear overalls, if we’re lucky enough to have a job at all. His wife tells us that we shouldn’t be feeding our children certain foods, and we hate her for it – not because we think she’s wrong but because we know she’s right.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “It’s about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it.”

92. “It’s about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Yale Law School was like nerd Hollywood, and I never stopped feeling like an awestruck tourist.”

93. “Yale Law School was like nerd Hollywood, and I never stopped feeling like an awestruck tourist.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “I didn’t want to hurt Mom’s feelings, but the past had created rifts that would likely never go away. I never confronted these demands head-on. I never explained to Mom that no matter how nice and caring she was at any given time – and while I had mono, she couldn’t have been a better mother – I just felt uncomfortable around her.”

94. “I didn’t want to hurt Mom’s feelings, but the past had created rifts that would likely never go away. I never confronted these demands head-on. I never explained to Mom that no matter how nice and caring she was at any given time – and while I had mono, she couldn’t have been a better mother – I just felt uncomfortable around her.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “But there’s something powerful about realizing that you’ve undersold yourself – that somehow your mind confused lack of effort for inability.”

95. “But there’s something powerful about realizing that you’ve undersold yourself – that somehow your mind confused lack of effort for inability.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “We didn’t have cell phones, and we didn’t have nice clothes, but Mamaw made sure that I had one of those graphing calculators. This taught me an important lesson about Mamaw’s values, and it forced me to engage with school in a way I never had before.”

96. “We didn’t have cell phones, and we didn’t have nice clothes, but Mamaw made sure that I had one of those graphing calculators. This taught me an important lesson about Mamaw’s values, and it forced me to engage with school in a way I never had before.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “It’s about reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible. It’s about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it.”

97. “It’s about reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible. It’s about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “As a cultural emigrant from one group to the other, I am acutely aware of their differences. Sometimes I view members of the elite with an almost primal scorn – recently, an acquaintance used the word “confabulate” in a sentence, and I just wanted to scream. But I have to give it to them: Their children are happier and healthier, their divorce rates lower, their church attendance higher, their lives longer. These people are beating us at our own damned game. I.”

98. “As a cultural emigrant from one group to the other, I am acutely aware of their differences. Sometimes I view members of the elite with an almost primal scorn – recently, an acquaintance used the word “confabulate” in a sentence, and I just wanted to scream. But I have to give it to them: Their children are happier and healthier, their divorce rates lower, their church attendance higher, their lives longer. These people are beating us at our own damned game. I.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “They want us to be shepherds to these kids. But no one wants to talk about the fact that many of them are raised by wolves.” I.”

99. “They want us to be shepherds to these kids. But no one wants to talk about the fact that many of them are raised by wolves.” I.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “First Corinthians, Chapter 13, Verse 12: “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

100. “First Corinthians, Chapter 13, Verse 12: “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

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