‘Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks or white trash. I call them neighbours, friends and family.’ But what do the real people of Appalachia think of Vance’s account of their homeland ...

If they were to eventually be interred there, he explained, they would mark the sixth generation of his family buried in the ...

J.D. Vance's claim to fame was his book, "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," in which he painted a polarizing picture of Appalachia. The book topped the New York Times ...

While she says Appalachia ends somewhere in West Virginia ... Thanks to Hampton’s objections, I’ll purposely sit down to watch Hillbilly Elegy this weekend. Afterward, I’ll take a ride ...

J.D. Vance has done a Sir Edmund Hillary in his newly released “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and ... and disaffection of America’s working class whites, look to Greater Appalachia. (Vance) ...

A study of recorded music of Appalachia (hillbilly) and cowboy music collected by Joe Bussard. Collection contains tape recordings of early country music, c. 1930s, plus transciptions arranged by ...

One popular T-shirt in support of the Trump-Vance ticket read “It’s Gonna Take a Felon and a Hillbilly to Fix This,” as if the experience of Appalachian hardship afforded Vance a unique ...