Revisiting J.D. Vance's memoir, 'Hillbilly Elegy'

This week, former President Donald Trump announced that Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance will be his running mate in the 2024 election. Vance rose to prominence with his bestselling 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which captured his upbringing in Appalachia and his family's intergenerational struggle with poverty, substance abuse and trauma. In today's episode, we revisit a conversation between Vance and NPR's Steve Inskeep about the book, in which he says there are ways politicians misunderstand white, working-class Americans.

[Bluekingbullyz]

My grandma was just telling me how she had to move to Cincinnati because there was no work here in Corbin Kentucky at the time her and her brothers moved in with an uncle and worked at shoe factory. She would keep saving, she met my grandfather there he sewed the uppers and she slacked the shoes. her father passed away then she moved home to help take care of the land.

[Kelly-bry]

Disclaimer: His grandparents moved away from Appalachia and his mother never grew up there!

[sharonkines]

Would love to watch his movie but can't afford Netflix