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JD Vance's Appalachia controversy explained
Many Appalachian residents and writers ... Steve Williams, a Democrat running for governor of West Virginia, reacted on X. "I read 'Hillbilly Elegy.' It drove me crazy," he wrote.
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Who Counts as a Hillbilly—And Who Gets to Decide?
Since the release of his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy ... associates than an unemployed coal miner in West Virginia. At the RNC, Vance invoked his Appalachian burial ground to challenge the ...
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In the heart of Appalachia, a distant cousin of JD Vance leads an opposing ‘authentic hillbilly’ movement
Five generations of Vances gathered in West Virginia last month ... a collection of essays called “Appalachian Reckoning” that serves as a rebuttal to “Hillbilly Elegy.” ...
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JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" ignores the real Appalachian crisis it portrays
I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" on election day ... on top of Muddy Creek Mountain outside of Alderson, West Virginia, a town of less than a thousand people nestled ...
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Who Counts as a Hillbilly—And Who Gets to Decide?
Donald Trump had picked Vance as his running mate at least in part because his “hillbilly ... coal miner in West Virginia. At the RNC, Vance invoked his Appalachian burial ground to challenge ...