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J.D. Vance Quote: “Our large group left an awful mess... I couldn’t imagine leaving it all for some poor guy to clean up, so I stayed behind. Of a dozen classmates, only one person helped me: my buddy Jamil... I told Jamil that we were probably the only people in the school who’d ever had to clean up someone else’s mess.”

251. “Our large group left an awful mess... I couldn’t imagine leaving it all for some poor guy to clean up, so I stayed behind. Of a dozen classmates, only one person helped me: my buddy Jamil... I told Jamil that we were probably the only people in the school who’d ever had to clean up someone else’s mess.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “In a paper analyzing the data, Chetty and his coauthors noted two important factors that explained the uneven geographic distribution of opportunity: the prevalence of single parents and income segregation. Growing up around a lot of single moms and dads and living in a place where most of your neighbors are poor really narrows the realm of possibilities. It means that unless you have a Mamaw and Papaw to make sure you stay the course, you might never make it out.”

252. “In a paper analyzing the data, Chetty and his coauthors noted two important factors that explained the uneven geographic distribution of opportunity: the prevalence of single parents and income segregation. Growing up around a lot of single moms and dads and living in a place where most of your neighbors are poor really narrows the realm of possibilities. It means that unless you have a Mamaw and Papaw to make sure you stay the course, you might never make it out.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Professors and classmates seemed genuinely interested in what seemed to me a superficially boring story: I.”

253. “Professors and classmates seemed genuinely interested in what seemed to me a superficially boring story: I.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “You can’t ignore stories like this when you talk about equal opportunity.”

254. “You can’t ignore stories like this when you talk about equal opportunity.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “How do you ask a professor if the judge he’s recommending you to is a nice lady? It’s.”

255. “How do you ask a professor if the judge he’s recommending you to is a nice lady? It’s.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Are we tough enough to look ourselves in the mirror and admit that our conduct harms our children? Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us. Recall.”

256. “Are we tough enough to look ourselves in the mirror and admit that our conduct harms our children? Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us. Recall.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “We spend to pretend that we’re upper-class. And when the dust clears – when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity – there’s nothing left over.”

257. “We spend to pretend that we’re upper-class. And when the dust clears – when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity – there’s nothing left over.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “There were many thumbs put on my scale. When I look back at my life, what jumps out is how many variables had to fall in place in order to give me a chance.”

258. “There were many thumbs put on my scale. When I look back at my life, what jumps out is how many variables had to fall in place in order to give me a chance.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “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.”

259. “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: “But hillbillies shared many regional characteristics with the southern blacks arriving in Detroit.”10 One.”

260. “But hillbillies shared many regional characteristics with the southern blacks arriving in Detroit.”10 One.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities.”

261. “Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Reams of social science attest to the positive effect of a loving and stable home. I could cite a dozen studies suggesting that Mamaw’s home offered me not just a short-term haven but also hope for a better life. 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.”

262. “Reams of social science attest to the positive effect of a loving and stable home. I could cite a dozen studies suggesting that Mamaw’s home offered me not just a short-term haven but also hope for a better life. 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.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “The wealthy and the powerful aren’t just wealthy and powerful; they follow a different set of norms and mores.”

263. “The wealthy and the powerful aren’t just wealthy and powerful; they follow a different set of norms and mores.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “We become hardwired for conflict. And that wiring remains, even when there’s no more conflict to be had.”

264. “We become hardwired for conflict. And that wiring remains, even when there’s no more conflict to be had.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “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. This.”

265. “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. This.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “My primary aim is to tell a true story about what that problem feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck.”

266. “My primary aim is to tell a true story about what that problem feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Thirteen dollars an hour was good money for a single guy in our hometown – a decent apartment costs about five hundred dollars a month – and the tile business offered steady raises.”

267. “Thirteen dollars an hour was good money for a single guy in our hometown – a decent apartment costs about five hundred dollars a month – and the tile business offered steady raises.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “She didn’t just preach and cuss and demand. She showed me what was possible – a peaceful Sunday afternoon with the people I loved – and made sure I knew how to get there. Reams.”

268. “She didn’t just preach and cuss and demand. She showed me what was possible – a peaceful Sunday afternoon with the people I loved – and made sure I knew how to get there. Reams.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “We can easily create a welfare state that accepts the fact of a permanent American underclass, one where family dysfunction, childhood trauma, cultural segregation, and hopelessness coexist with some basic measure of subsistence. Or we can do something considerably more difficult: reject the notion of a permanent American underclass.”

269. “We can easily create a welfare state that accepts the fact of a permanent American underclass, one where family dysfunction, childhood trauma, cultural segregation, and hopelessness coexist with some basic measure of subsistence. Or we can do something considerably more difficult: reject the notion of a permanent American underclass.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Evolution and the Big Bang became ideologies to confront, not theories to understand.”

270. “Evolution and the Big Bang became ideologies to confront, not theories to understand.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Despite the topographical differences and the different regional economies of the South and the industrial Midwest, my travels had been confined largely to places where the people looked and acted like my family. We ate the same foods, watched the same sports, and practiced the same religion. That’s why I felt so much kinship with those people at the courthouse: They were hillbilly transplants in one way or another, just like me.”

271. “Despite the topographical differences and the different regional economies of the South and the industrial Midwest, my travels had been confined largely to places where the people looked and acted like my family. We ate the same foods, watched the same sports, and practiced the same religion. That’s why I felt so much kinship with those people at the courthouse: They were hillbilly transplants in one way or another, just like me.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “But as I realized that in this new world I was the culture alien, I began to think seriously about questions that had nagged at me since I was a teenager: Why has on one else from my high school made it to the Ivy League? Why are people like me so poorly represented in America’s elite institutions? Why is domestic so common in families like mine? Why did I think that places like Yale and Harvard were so unreachable? Why did successful people feel so different?”

272. “But as I realized that in this new world I was the culture alien, I began to think seriously about questions that had nagged at me since I was a teenager: Why has on one else from my high school made it to the Ivy League? Why are people like me so poorly represented in America’s elite institutions? Why is domestic so common in families like mine? Why did I think that places like Yale and Harvard were so unreachable? Why did successful people feel so different?”

J.D. Vance Quote: “I had heard it many times before, and I didn’t believe it even a little. Lindsay once told me that, above all, Mom was a survivor.”

273. “I had heard it many times before, and I didn’t believe it even a little. Lindsay once told me that, above all, Mom was a survivor.”

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