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J.D. Vance Quote: “Hillbillies like to add their own twist to many words. We call minnows “minners” and crayfish “crawdads.”

101. “Hillbillies like to add their own twist to many words. We call minnows “minners” and crayfish “crawdads.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “At around that time, our neighbor – one of Mamaw and Papaw’s oldest friends – registered the house next to ours for Section 8. Section 8 is a government program that offers low-income residents a.”

102. “At around that time, our neighbor – one of Mamaw and Papaw’s oldest friends – registered the house next to ours for Section 8. Section 8 is a government program that offers low-income residents a.”

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.”

103. “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: “A good friend, who worked for a time in the White House and cares deeply about the plight of the working class, once told me, “The best way to look at this might be to recognize that you probably can’t fix these things. They’ll always be around. But maybe you can put your thumb on the scale a little for the people at the margins.”

104. “A good friend, who worked for a time in the White House and cares deeply about the plight of the working class, once told me, “The best way to look at this might be to recognize that you probably can’t fix these things. They’ll always be around. But maybe you can put your thumb on the scale a little for the people at the margins.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “And a young man with every reason to work – a wife-to-be to support and a baby on the way – carelessly tossing aside a good job with excellent health insurance. More troublingly, when it was all over, he thought something had been done to him. There is a lack of agency here – a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. This is distinct from the larger economic landscape of modern America. It’s.”

105. “And a young man with every reason to work – a wife-to-be to support and a baby on the way – carelessly tossing aside a good job with excellent health insurance. More troublingly, when it was all over, he thought something had been done to him. There is a lack of agency here – a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. This is distinct from the larger economic landscape of modern America. It’s.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “As I began to think a bit more deeply about my own identity, I.”

106. “As I began to think a bit more deeply about my own identity, I.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The same was true of Charles Murray’s seminal Losing Ground, another book about black folks that could have been written about hillbillies – which addressed the way our government encouraged social decay through the welfare state.”

107. “The same was true of Charles Murray’s seminal Losing Ground, another book about black folks that could have been written about hillbillies – which addressed the way our government encouraged social decay through the welfare state.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “When Mamaw picked me up from school, I’d ask her not to get out of the car lest my friends see her – wearing her uniform of baggy jeans and a men’s T-shirt – with a giant menthol cigarette hanging from her lip. When people asked, I lied and told them that I lived with my mom, that she and I took care of my ailing grandmother. Even today, I still regret that far too many high school friends and acquaintances never knew Mamaw was the best thing that ever happened to me. My.”

108. “When Mamaw picked me up from school, I’d ask her not to get out of the car lest my friends see her – wearing her uniform of baggy jeans and a men’s T-shirt – with a giant menthol cigarette hanging from her lip. When people asked, I lied and told them that I lived with my mom, that she and I took care of my ailing grandmother. Even today, I still regret that far too many high school friends and acquaintances never knew Mamaw was the best thing that ever happened to me. My.”

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

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

J.D. Vance Quote: “I’ve seen far too many people awash in a genuine desire to change only to lose their mettle when they realized just how difficult change actually is.”

110. “I’ve seen far too many people awash in a genuine desire to change only to lose their mettle when they realized just how difficult change actually is.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “ACEs happen everywhere, in every community. But studies have shown that ACEs are far more common in my corner of the demographic world. A.”

111. “ACEs happen everywhere, in every community. But studies have shown that ACEs are far more common in my corner of the demographic world. A.”

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.”

112. “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: “In 1960, of Ohio’s ten million residents, one million were born in Kentucky, West Virginia, or Tennessee. This doesn’t count the large number of migrants from elsewhere in the southern Appalachian Mountains; nor does it include the children or grandchildren of migrants who were hill people to the core. There were undoubtedly many of these children and grandchildren, as hillbillies tended to have much higher birthrates than the native population.6.”

113. “In 1960, of Ohio’s ten million residents, one million were born in Kentucky, West Virginia, or Tennessee. This doesn’t count the large number of migrants from elsewhere in the southern Appalachian Mountains; nor does it include the children or grandchildren of migrants who were hill people to the core. There were undoubtedly many of these children and grandchildren, as hillbillies tended to have much higher birthrates than the native population.6.”

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.”

114. “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 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.”

115. “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: “In a given year, 640,000 children, most of them poor, will spend at least some time in foster care.”

116. “In a given year, 640,000 children, most of them poor, will spend at least some time in foster care.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “We talk about the value of hard work but tell ourselves that the reason we’re not working is some perceived unfairness: Obama shut down the coal mines, or all the jobs went to the Chinese. 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.”

117. “We talk about the value of hard work but tell ourselves that the reason we’re not working is some perceived unfairness: Obama shut down the coal mines, or all the jobs went to the Chinese. 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: “The fallen world described by the Christian religion matched the world I saw around me: one where a happy car ride could quickly turn to misery, one where individual misconduct rippled across a family’s and a community’s life. When I asked Mamaw if God loved us, I asked her to reassure me that this religion of ours could still make sense of the world we lived in. I needed reassurance of some deeper justice, some cadence or rhythm that lurked beneath the heartache and chaos.”

118. “The fallen world described by the Christian religion matched the world I saw around me: one where a happy car ride could quickly turn to misery, one where individual misconduct rippled across a family’s and a community’s life. When I asked Mamaw if God loved us, I asked her to reassure me that this religion of ours could still make sense of the world we lived in. I needed reassurance of some deeper justice, some cadence or rhythm that lurked beneath the heartache and chaos.”

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

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

J.D. Vance Quote: “If ethnicity is one side of the coin, then geography is the other. When the first wave of Scots-Irish immigrants landed in the New World in the eighteenth century, they were deeply attracted to the Appalachian Mountains. This region is admittedly huge – stretching from Alabama to Georgia in the South to Ohio to parts of New York in the North – but the culture of Greater Appalachia is remarkably cohesive.”

120. “If ethnicity is one side of the coin, then geography is the other. When the first wave of Scots-Irish immigrants landed in the New World in the eighteenth century, they were deeply attracted to the Appalachian Mountains. This region is admittedly huge – stretching from Alabama to Georgia in the South to Ohio to parts of New York in the North – but the culture of Greater Appalachia is remarkably cohesive.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “It’s worth noting that although I focus on the group of people I know – working-class whites with ties to Appalachia – 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.”

121. “It’s worth noting that although I focus on the group of people I know – working-class whites with ties to Appalachia – 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.”

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.”

122. “Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us aren’t.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “For there are no villains in this story.”

123. “For there are no villains in this story.”

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.”

124. “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: “The juxtaposition is jarring: Religious institutions remain a positive force in people’s lives, but in a part of the country slammed by the decline of manufacturing, joblessness, addiction, and broken homes, church attendance has fallen off.”

125. “The juxtaposition is jarring: Religious institutions remain a positive force in people’s lives, but in a part of the country slammed by the decline of manufacturing, joblessness, addiction, and broken homes, church attendance has fallen off.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Whenever something bad happens – even a hint of disagreement – you withdraw completely. It’s like you have a shell that you hide in.”

126. “Whenever something bad happens – even a hint of disagreement – you withdraw completely. It’s like you have a shell that you hide in.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “This was my world: a world of truly irrational behavior. We spend our way into the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don’t need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being. We spend to pretend that we’re upper-class.”

127. “This was my world: a world of truly irrational behavior. We spend our way into the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don’t need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being. We spend to pretend that we’re upper-class.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Despite its reputation, Appalachia – especially northern Alabama and Georgia to southern Ohio – has far lower church attendance than the Midwest, parts of the Mountain West, and much of the space between Michigan and Montana. Oddly enough, we think we attend church more than we actually do. In a recent Gallup poll, Southerners and Midwesterners reported the highest rates of church attendance in the country. Yet actual church attendance is much lower in the South.”

128. “Despite its reputation, Appalachia – especially northern Alabama and Georgia to southern Ohio – has far lower church attendance than the Midwest, parts of the Mountain West, and much of the space between Michigan and Montana. Oddly enough, we think we attend church more than we actually do. In a recent Gallup poll, Southerners and Midwesterners reported the highest rates of church attendance in the country. Yet actual church attendance is much lower in the South.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites.”

129. “There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites.”

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.”

130. “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: “They’d regularly go through the checkout line speaking on their cell phones. I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off of government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.”

131. “They’d regularly go through the checkout line speaking on their cell phones. I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off of government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Papaw was a Democrat because that party protected the working people.”

132. “Papaw was a Democrat because that party protected the working people.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.”

133. “Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level.”

134. “Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “So I didn’t write this book because I’ve accomplished something extraordinary. I wrote this book because I’ve achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn’t happen to most kids who grow up like me.”

135. “So I didn’t write this book because I’ve accomplished something extraordinary. I wrote this book because I’ve achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn’t happen to most kids who grow up like me.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Change the names and dates, and the Italian Mafia starts to look a lot like the Hatfield-McCoy dispute back in Appalachia.”

136. “Change the names and dates, and the Italian Mafia starts to look a lot like the Hatfield-McCoy dispute back in Appalachia.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to resist it.”

137. “Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to resist it.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Efforts to reinvent downtown Middletown always struck me as futile. People didn’t leave because our downtown lacked trendy cultural amenities. The trendy cultural amenities left because there weren’t enough consumers in Middletown to support them.”

138. “Efforts to reinvent downtown Middletown always struck me as futile. People didn’t leave because our downtown lacked trendy cultural amenities. The trendy cultural amenities left because there weren’t enough consumers in Middletown to support them.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “All of us were poor, and no amount of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles memorabilia would change that.”

139. “All of us were poor, and no amount of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles memorabilia would change that.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Part of the problem is how state laws define the family. For families like mine – and for many black and Hispanic families – grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles play an outsize role. Child services often cut them out.”

140. “Part of the problem is how state laws define the family. For families like mine – and for many black and Hispanic families – grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles play an outsize role. Child services often cut them out.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Papaw’s distant cousin – also Jim Vance – married into the Hatfield family and joined a group of former Confederate soldiers and sympathizers called the Wildcats. When Cousin Jim murdered former Union soldier Asa Harmon McCoy, he kicked off one of the most famous family feuds in American history.”

141. “Papaw’s distant cousin – also Jim Vance – married into the Hatfield family and joined a group of former Confederate soldiers and sympathizers called the Wildcats. When Cousin Jim murdered former Union soldier Asa Harmon McCoy, he kicked off one of the most famous family feuds in American history.”

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. This is why, whenever people ask me what I’d most like to change about the white working class, I say, “The feeling that our choices don’t matter.” The Marine Corps excised that feeling like a surgeon does a tumor. A.”

142. “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. This is why, whenever people ask me what I’d most like to change about the white working class, I say, “The feeling that our choices don’t matter.” The Marine Corps excised that feeling like a surgeon does a tumor. A.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “I don’t believe in epiphanies. I don’t believe in transformative moments, as transformation is harder than a moment. I’ve seen far too many people awash in a genuine desire to change only to lose their mettle when they realized just how difficult change actually is.”

143. “I don’t believe in epiphanies. I don’t believe in transformative moments, as transformation is harder than a moment. I’ve seen far too many people awash in a genuine desire to change only to lose their mettle when they realized just how difficult change actually is.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Maybe, with my Southern drawl and.”

144. “Maybe, with my Southern drawl and.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Confederate soldiers.”

145. “Confederate soldiers.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Even excessive shouting can damage a kid’s sense of security and contribute to mental health and behavioral issues down the road.”

146. “Even excessive shouting can damage a kid’s sense of security and contribute to mental health and behavioral issues down the road.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Mom’s brothers would come up and want to go carousing with Dad,” Uncle Jimmy explained. “They’d go drinking and chasing women. Uncle Pet was always the leader. I didn’t want to hear about it, but I always did. It was that culture from back then that expected the men were going to go out and do what they wanted to do.”

147. “Mom’s brothers would come up and want to go carousing with Dad,” Uncle Jimmy explained. “They’d go drinking and chasing women. Uncle Pet was always the leader. I didn’t want to hear about it, but I always did. It was that culture from back then that expected the men were going to go out and do what they wanted to do.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “As jobs disappear in a given area, declining home values trap people in certain neighborhoods. Even if you’d like to move, you can’t, because the bottom has fallen out of the market – you now owe more than any buyer is willing to pay. The costs of moving are so high that many people stay put. Of course, the people trapped are usually those with the least money; those who can afford to leave do so.”

148. “As jobs disappear in a given area, declining home values trap people in certain neighborhoods. Even if you’d like to move, you can’t, because the bottom has fallen out of the market – you now owe more than any buyer is willing to pay. The costs of moving are so high that many people stay put. Of course, the people trapped are usually those with the least money; those who can afford to leave do so.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “It’s impossible to say whether I would have gotten the job. I was.”

149. “It’s impossible to say whether I would have gotten the job. I was.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites. Well over half of blacks, Latinos, and college-educated whites expect that their children will fare better economically than they have. Among working-class whites, only 44 percent share that expectation.”

150. “There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites. Well over half of blacks, Latinos, and college-educated whites expect that their children will fare better economically than they have. Among working-class whites, only 44 percent share that expectation.”

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