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J.D. Vance Quote: “I’ve never heard anyone else called “the nicest person in the world.” For Gail, it’s an entirely deserved title.”

251. “I’ve never heard anyone else called “the nicest person in the world.” For Gail, it’s an entirely deserved title.”

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.”

252. “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.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Readers of this book will realize quickly that there is little relationship between that specter and my argument: I have known many welfare queens; some were my neighbors, and all were white.”

253. “Readers of this book will realize quickly that there is little relationship between that specter and my argument: I have known many welfare queens; some were my neighbors, and all were white.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “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 school or college graduates, homeowners, and not receiving public assistance.”12 In other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs.”

254. “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 school or college graduates, homeowners, and not receiving public assistance.”12 In other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “Not everything came easy. I always fancied myself a decent writer, but.”

255. “Not everything came easy. I always fancied myself a decent writer, but.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “As we talked, I noticed little quirks that few others would. He didn’t want to share his milk shake, which.”

256. “As we talked, I noticed little quirks that few others would. He didn’t want to share his milk shake, which.”

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. You see, I grew up poor, in the Rust Belt, in an Ohio steel town that has been hemorrhaging jobs and hope for as long as I can remember.”

257. “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. You see, I grew up poor, in the Rust Belt, in an Ohio steel town that has been hemorrhaging jobs and hope for as long as I can remember.”

J.D. Vance Quote: “There’re fewer emotional and financial resources when the only people in a neighborhood are low-income. You just can’t lump them together, because then you have a bigger pool of hopelessness.”

258. “There’re fewer emotional and financial resources when the only people in a neighborhood are low-income. You just can’t lump them together, because then you have a bigger pool of hopelessness.”

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.”

259. “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.”

260. “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.”

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

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.”

262. “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.”

263. “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.”

264. “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.”

265. “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.”

266. “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.”

267. “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.”

268. “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.”

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

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.”

270. “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.”

271. “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.”

272. “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.”

273. “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.”

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