In 2016, as Americans questioned why so many had voted for Donald Trump to become America’s 45th president – and again, how he was re-elected this week, JD Vance’s book appeared to have all the ...

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“Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, and white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.” — J.D. Vance, “Hillbilly Elegy” I remember reading this line of Vance’s memoir for my history ...

A Fox News guest labeled Vice President JD Vance a "hillbilly" over his defense of the ICE shooting that killed Renee Nicole Good.

Oscar Uhalde graduated high school in Athens, and is currently a freshman at Columbia University studying political science. In an age of increasingly shifting demographics, Democrats and Republicans ...

A fellow Appalachian native challenged the 'Hillbilly Elegy' author over his stance on absolute immunity for federal agents.

When President Donald Trump tapped Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his vice-presidential running mate, the then-senator’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis came back ...

Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance will square off against his opponent Tim Walz in a debate tonight. We can be almost certain that Vance will be confronted again with his recent false ...

Five generations of Vances gathered in West Virginia last month for a reunion, singing hymns and swapping stories in a quiet park hugged by towering green mountains waiting to burst into autumnal ...