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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.”

151. “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.”

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

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

J.D. Vance Quote: “A lot of students just don’t understand what’s out there,” she told me, shaking her head. “You have the kids who plan on being baseball players but don’t even play on the high school team because the coach is mean to them.”

154. “A lot of students just don’t understand what’s out there,” she told me, shaking her head. “You have the kids who plan on being baseball players but don’t even play on the high school team because the coach is mean to them.”

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.”

155. “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.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “One way our upper class can promote upward mobility, then, is not only by pushing wise public policies but by opening their hearts and minds to the newcomers who don’t quite belong. Though.”

156. “One way our upper class can promote upward mobility, then, is not only by pushing wise public policies but by opening their hearts and minds to the newcomers who don’t quite belong. Though.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “But this book is about something else: what goes on in the lives of real people when the industrial economy goes south. 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. The.”

157. “But this book is about something else: what goes on in the lives of real people when the industrial economy goes south. 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. The.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us. Recall.”

158. “Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us. Recall.”

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.”

159. “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: “I’ve learned that the very traits that enabled my survival during childhood inhibit my success as an adult.”

160. “I’ve learned that the very traits that enabled my survival during childhood inhibit my success as an adult.”

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.”

161. “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: “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.”

162. “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: “The lesson? Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.”

163. “The lesson? Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.”

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

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

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.”

165. “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: “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.”

166. “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.”

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.”

167. “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: “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. Even more surprising, 42 percent of working-class whites – by far the highest number in the survey – report that their lives are less economically successful than those of their parents’.”

168. “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. Even more surprising, 42 percent of working-class whites – by far the highest number in the survey – report that their lives are less economically successful than those of their parents’.”

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.”

169. “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.”

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?”

170. “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: “In other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs. This.”

171. “In other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs. This.”

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

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

J.D. Vance Quote: “Many in the white working class believe the worst about their society.”

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

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.”

174. “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 probably watched it together five or six times. Mamaw saw Arnold Schwarzenegger as the embodiment of the American Dream: a strong, capable immigrant coming out on top.”

175. “We probably watched it together five or six times. Mamaw saw Arnold Schwarzenegger as the embodiment of the American Dream: a strong, capable immigrant coming out on top.”

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

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

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.”

177. “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: “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.”

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

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

J.D. Vance Quote: “But a large minority was content to live off the dole. Every two weeks, I’d get a small paycheck and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.”

180. “But a large minority was content to live off the dole. Every two weeks, I’d get a small paycheck and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Today downtown Middletown is little more than a relic of American industrial glory.”

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

J.D. Vance Quote: “I can’t understand why people who’ve worked all their lives scrape by while these deadbeats buy liquor and cell phone coverage with our tax money.”

182. “I can’t understand why people who’ve worked all their lives scrape by while these deadbeats buy liquor and cell phone coverage with our tax money.”

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.”

183. “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.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Our kids perform poorly in school. We might get angry with them, but we never give them the tools – like peace and quiet at home – to succeed. Even the best and brightest will likely go to college close to home, if they survive the war zone in their own home. “I don’t care if you got into Notre Dame,” we say. “You can get a fine, cheap education at the community college.” The irony is that for poor people like us, an.”

184. “Our kids perform poorly in school. We might get angry with them, but we never give them the tools – like peace and quiet at home – to succeed. Even the best and brightest will likely go to college close to home, if they survive the war zone in their own home. “I don’t care if you got into Notre Dame,” we say. “You can get a fine, cheap education at the community college.” The irony is that for poor people like us, an.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Your generation will make its living with their minds, not their hands,” he once told me. The only acceptable career at Armco was as an engineer, not as a laborer in the weld shop. A lot of other Middletown parents and grandparents must have felt similarly: To them, the American Dream required forward momentum. Manual labor was honorable work, but it was their generation’s work – we had to do something different. To move up was to move on. That required going to college.”

185. “Your generation will make its living with their minds, not their hands,” he once told me. The only acceptable career at Armco was as an engineer, not as a laborer in the weld shop. A lot of other Middletown parents and grandparents must have felt similarly: To them, the American Dream required forward momentum. Manual labor was honorable work, but it was their generation’s work – we had to do something different. To move up was to move on. That required going to college.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day. Here.”

186. “There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day. Here.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Chad Berry in his book Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles, “the.”

187. “Chad Berry in his book Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles, “the.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The problems of our community hit close to home. Mom’s struggles weren’t some isolated incident. They were replicated, replayed, and relived by many of the people who, like us, had moved hundreds of miles in search of a better life. There was no end in sight. Mamaw had thought she escaped the poverty of the hills, but the poverty – emotional, if not financial – had followed her.”

188. “The problems of our community hit close to home. Mom’s struggles weren’t some isolated incident. They were replicated, replayed, and relived by many of the people who, like us, had moved hundreds of miles in search of a better life. There was no end in sight. Mamaw had thought she escaped the poverty of the hills, but the poverty – emotional, if not financial – had followed her.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty rates above 10 percent. In 2000, that number was 40 percent. It’s almost certainly even higher today. As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high.”

189. “The number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty rates above 10 percent. In 2000, that number was 40 percent. It’s almost certainly even higher today. As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “But it was there, and studies now show that working-class boys like me do much worse in school because they view schoolwork as a feminine endeavor.”

190. “But it was there, and studies now show that working-class boys like me do much worse in school because they view schoolwork as a feminine endeavor.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “There are lessons to draw here, among them what I’ve noted already: that one consequence of isolation is seeing standard metrics of success as not just unattainable but as the property of people not like us. Mamaw always fought that attitude in me, and for the most part, she was successful. Another.”

191. “There are lessons to draw here, among them what I’ve noted already: that one consequence of isolation is seeing standard metrics of success as not just unattainable but as the property of people not like us. Mamaw always fought that attitude in me, and for the most part, she was successful. Another.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “She promised that if she saw me in the presence of any person on the banned list, she would run him over with her car. “No one would ever find out,” she whispered menacingly.”

192. “She promised that if she saw me in the presence of any person on the banned list, she would run him over with her car. “No one would ever find out,” she whispered menacingly.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Their paper suggests that hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them, or by pretending better truths exist.”

193. “Their paper suggests that hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them, or by pretending better truths exist.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “A big part of the explanation lies in the fact that many in the white working class saw precisely what I did, working at Dillman’s. As far back as the 1970s, the white working class began to turn to Richard Nixon because of a perception that, as one man put it, government was “payin’ people who are on welfare today doin’ nothin’!”

194. “A big part of the explanation lies in the fact that many in the white working class saw precisely what I did, working at Dillman’s. As far back as the 1970s, the white working class began to turn to Richard Nixon because of a perception that, as one man put it, government was “payin’ people who are on welfare today doin’ nothin’!”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The more harried a customer, the more they purchased precooked or frozen food, the more likely they were to be poor. And I knew they were poor because of the clothes they wore or because they purchased their food with food stamps.”

195. “The more harried a customer, the more they purchased precooked or frozen food, the more likely they were to be poor. And I knew they were poor because of the clothes they wore or because they purchased their food with food stamps.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “My professor gave me permission to be me. It’s.”

196. “My professor gave me permission to be me. It’s.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “He finished his food quickly and then nervously looked from person to person. I could tell that he wanted to ask a question, so I wrapped my arm around his shoulder and asked if he needed anything. ‘Yeah,’ he started, refusing to make eye contact. And then, almost in a whisper: ‘I wonder if I could get a few more french fries.’ He was hungry – in 2014, in the richest country on Earth. He wanted a little extra to eat, but felt uncomfortable asking.”

197. “He finished his food quickly and then nervously looked from person to person. I could tell that he wanted to ask a question, so I wrapped my arm around his shoulder and asked if he needed anything. ‘Yeah,’ he started, refusing to make eye contact. And then, almost in a whisper: ‘I wonder if I could get a few more french fries.’ He was hungry – in 2014, in the richest country on Earth. He wanted a little extra to eat, but felt uncomfortable asking.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Persecution by David Limbaugh about the various ways that Christians were discriminated against.”

198. “Persecution by David Limbaugh about the various ways that Christians were discriminated against.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “This has occurred for complicated reasons. Federal housing policy has actively encouraged homeownership, from Jimmy Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act to George W. Bush’s ownership society.”

199. “This has occurred for complicated reasons. Federal housing policy has actively encouraged homeownership, from Jimmy Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act to George W. Bush’s ownership society.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “With little trust in the press, there’s no check on the Internet conspiracy theories that rule the digital world. Barack.”

200. “With little trust in the press, there’s no check on the Internet conspiracy theories that rule the digital world. Barack.”

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