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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.”

101. “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: “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.”

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

103. “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: “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.”

104. “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: “It was, Uncle Jimmy told me, ‘a typical middle-class life’. Kind of boring, by some standards, but happy in a way you appreciate only when you understand the consequences of not being boring.”

105. “It was, Uncle Jimmy told me, ‘a typical middle-class life’. Kind of boring, by some standards, but happy in a way you appreciate only when you understand the consequences of not being boring.”

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

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

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.”

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

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

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.”

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

110. “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: “I almost failed out of high school.”

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

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.”

112. “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.”

113. “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: “The only thing that report proves is that many folks talk about working more than they actually work. Of.”

114. “The only thing that report proves is that many folks talk about working more than they actually work. Of.”

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.”

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

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

J.D. Vance Quote: “How much of our lives, good and bad, should we credit to our personal decisions, and how much is just the inheritance of our culture, our families, and our parents who have failed their children? How much is Mom’s life her own fault? Where does blame stop and sympathy begin?”

117. “How much of our lives, good and bad, should we credit to our personal decisions, and how much is just the inheritance of our culture, our families, and our parents who have failed their children? How much is Mom’s life her own fault? Where does blame stop and sympathy begin?”

J.D. Vance Quote: “So maybe I just wanted to give credit where credit is due.”

118. “So maybe I just wanted to give credit where credit is due.”

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.”

119. “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: “Confederate soldiers.”

120. “Confederate soldiers.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The trials of my youth instilled a debilitating self-doubt. Instead of congratulating myself on having overcome some obstacles, I worried that I’d be overcome by the next ones.”

121. “The trials of my youth instilled a debilitating self-doubt. Instead of congratulating myself on having overcome some obstacles, I worried that I’d be overcome by the next ones.”

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. 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.”

122. “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.”

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

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

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

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

J.D. Vance Quote: “The statistics tell you that kids like me face a grim future – that if they’re lucky, they’ll manage to avoid welfare; and if they’re unlucky, they’ll die of a heroin overdose, as happened to dozens in my small hometown just last year. I.”

125. “The statistics tell you that kids like me face a grim future – that if they’re lucky, they’ll manage to avoid welfare; and if they’re unlucky, they’ll die of a heroin overdose, as happened to dozens in my small hometown just last year. I.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “And what turned me into an alien was my optimism.”

126. “And what turned me into an alien was my optimism.”

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

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

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.”

128. “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 impossible to say whether I would have gotten the job. I was.”

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

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.”

130. “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: “Our high school ranked near the bottom of Ohio’s schools, but that had little to do with the staff and much to do with the students.”

131. “Our high school ranked near the bottom of Ohio’s schools, but that had little to do with the staff and much to do with the students.”

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.”

132. “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: “He sent an older marine to supervise as I shopped for my first car so that I’d end up with a practical car, like a Toyota or a Honda, not the BMW I wanted.”

133. “He sent an older marine to supervise as I shopped for my first car so that I’d end up with a practical car, like a Toyota or a Honda, not the BMW I wanted.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Mamaw apparently understood what would take me another twenty years to learn: that social class in America isn’t just about money. And.”

134. “Mamaw apparently understood what would take me another twenty years to learn: that social class in America isn’t just about money. And.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Our elegy is a sociological one, yes, but it is also about psychology and community and culture and faith. During.”

135. “Our elegy is a sociological one, yes, but it is also about psychology and community and culture and faith. During.”

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.”

136. “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: “Then I hit a wall. The last interviewer asked me a.”

137. “Then I hit a wall. The last interviewer asked me a.”

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

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

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.”

139. “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.”

140. “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: “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.”

141. “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: “Many in the white working class believe the worst about their society.”

142. “Many in the white working class believe the worst about their society.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The problems that I saw at the tile warehouse run far deeper than macroeconomic trends and policy. Too many young men immune to hard work. Good jobs impossible to fill for any length of time. 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.”

143. “The problems that I saw at the tile warehouse run far deeper than macroeconomic trends and policy. Too many young men immune to hard work. Good jobs impossible to fill for any length of time. 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.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “But whatever the reasons, the rhetoric of hard work conflicts with the reality on the ground. The.”

144. “But whatever the reasons, the rhetoric of hard work conflicts with the reality on the ground. The.”

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.”

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

146. “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: “The people are physically unhealthy, and without government assistance they lack treatment for the most basic problems. Most important, they’re mean about it – they will hesitate to open their lives up to others for the simple reason that they don’t wish to be judged.”

147. “The people are physically unhealthy, and without government assistance they lack treatment for the most basic problems. Most important, they’re mean about it – they will hesitate to open their lives up to others for the simple reason that they don’t wish to be judged.”

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.”

148. “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: “Today downtown Middletown is little more than a relic of American industrial glory.”

149. “Today downtown Middletown is little more than a relic of American industrial glory.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Our religion has changed – built around churches heavy on emotional rhetoric but light on the kind of social support necessary to enable poor kids to do well.”

150. “Our religion has changed – built around churches heavy on emotional rhetoric but light on the kind of social support necessary to enable poor kids to do well.”

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