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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?”

151. “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.”

152. “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.”

153. “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.”

154. “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.”

155. “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.”

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

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

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.”

158. “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.”

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

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.”

160. “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: “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.”

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

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

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

163. “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.”

164. “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.”

165. “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.”

166. “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.”

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

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

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.”

169. “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: “The constant moving and fighting, the seemingly endless carousel of new people I had to meet, learn to love, and then forget – this, and not my subpar public school, was the real barrier to opportunity.”

170. “The constant moving and fighting, the seemingly endless carousel of new people I had to meet, learn to love, and then forget – this, and not my subpar public school, was the real barrier to opportunity.”

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.”

171. “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.”

172. “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.”

173. “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.”

174. “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.”

175. “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.”

176. “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.”

177. “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.”

178. “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.”

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

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.”

180. “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.”

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

J.D. Vance Quote: “As Papaw knew when he was a young man, the best way up for the hillbilly was out.”

182. “As Papaw knew when he was a young man, the best way up for the hillbilly was out.”

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.”

183. “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: “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’.”

184. “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: “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.”

185. “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: “It is a testament to the class consciousness of my youth that my friends’ thoughts drifted first to the cost of an airplane flight.”

186. “It is a testament to the class consciousness of my youth that my friends’ thoughts drifted first to the cost of an airplane flight.”

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. Tomorrow you need to stand up for that boy, and if you have to stand up for yourself, then do that, too.”

187. “Sometimes, honey, you have to fight, even when you’re not defending yourself. Sometimes it’s just the right thing to do. Tomorrow you need to stand up for that boy, and if you have to stand up for yourself, then do that, too.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “In the broken world I saw around me – and for the people struggling in that world – religion offered tangible assistance to keep the faithful on track.”

188. “In the broken world I saw around me – and for the people struggling in that world – religion offered tangible assistance to keep the faithful on track.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The life I lead now was the stuff of fantasy during my childhood.”

189. “The life I lead now was the stuff of fantasy during my childhood.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Mamaw’s first foray into adulthood ended in tragedy. Today I often wonder: Without the baby, would she ever have left Jackson? Would she have run off with Jim Vance to foreign territory? Mamaw’s entire life – and the trajectory of our family – may have changed for a baby who lived only six days.”

190. “Mamaw’s first foray into adulthood ended in tragedy. Today I often wonder: Without the baby, would she ever have left Jackson? Would she have run off with Jim Vance to foreign territory? Mamaw’s entire life – and the trajectory of our family – may have changed for a baby who lived only six days.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Children with multiple ACEs are more likely to struggle with anxiety and depression, to suffer from heart disease and obesity, and to contract certain types of cancers. They’re also more likely to underperform in school and suffer from relationship instability as adults.”

191. “Children with multiple ACEs are more likely to struggle with anxiety and depression, to suffer from heart disease and obesity, and to contract certain types of cancers. They’re also more likely to underperform in school and suffer from relationship instability as adults.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The moms and dads and grandparents didn’t wear suits like the lawyers and judge. They wore sweatpants and stretchy pants and T-shirts. Their hair was a bit frizzy. And it was the first time I noticed “TV accents” – the neutral accent that so many news anchors had. The social workers and the judge and the lawyer all had TV accents. None of us did. The people who ran the courthouse were different from us. The people subjected to it were not.”

192. “The moms and dads and grandparents didn’t wear suits like the lawyers and judge. They wore sweatpants and stretchy pants and T-shirts. Their hair was a bit frizzy. And it was the first time I noticed “TV accents” – the neutral accent that so many news anchors had. The social workers and the judge and the lawyer all had TV accents. None of us did. The people who ran the courthouse were different from us. The people subjected to it were not.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “As I increasingly saw Mom’s behavior in myself, I tried to understand her.”

193. “As I increasingly saw Mom’s behavior in myself, I tried to understand her.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Despite our efforts to draw bright lines between the working and nonworking poor, Mamaw and I recognized that we shared a lot in common with those whom.”

194. “Despite our efforts to draw bright lines between the working and nonworking poor, Mamaw and I recognized that we shared a lot in common with those whom.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Social psychologists have shown that group belief is a powerful motivator in performance.”

195. “Social psychologists have shown that group belief is a powerful motivator in performance.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “But I often wonder: Where would I be without them? I think.”

196. “But I often wonder: Where would I be without them? I think.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “I want people to know what it feels like to nearly give up on yourself and why you might do it.”

197. “I want people to know what it feels like to nearly give up on yourself and why you might do it.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “I’ve achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn’t happen to most kids who grow up like me.”

198. “I’ve achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn’t happen to most kids who grow up like me.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “This is really striking – four in every ten working-class people had faced multiple instances of childhood trauma. For the non–working class, that number was 29 percent.”

199. “This is really striking – four in every ten working-class people had faced multiple instances of childhood trauma. For the non–working class, that number was 29 percent.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “These were quirks, and at first I understood them as little more than strict rules that I could either comply with or get around. Yet I was a curious kid, and the deeper I immersed myself in evangelical theology, the more I felt compelled to mistrust many sectors of society.”

200. “These were quirks, and at first I understood them as little more than strict rules that I could either comply with or get around. Yet I was a curious kid, and the deeper I immersed myself in evangelical theology, the more I felt compelled to mistrust many sectors of society.”

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