“Many in the white working class believe the worst about their society.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“However you want to define these two groups and their approach to giving—rich and poor; educated and uneducated; upper-class and working-class—their members… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Even more surprising, 42 percent of working-class whites - by far the highest number in the survey - report that their lives… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites. Well over half of blacks, Latinos, and college-educated whites expect that… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Not all of the white working class struggles. I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“In France, the percentage of children exposed to three or more maternal partners is 0.5 percent—about one in two hundred. The second… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“ACEs are traumatic childhood events, and their consequences reach far into adulthood. The trauma need not be physical. The following events or… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“tried to go to a counselor, but it was just too weird. Talking to some stranger about my feelings made me want… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be.… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Wed don't need to live like the elites of California, New York, or Washington, D.C. We don't need to work a hundred hours a… — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to… — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“the first impulse is escape, but people who lurch toward the exit rarely choose the right door.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be. Political scientists… — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“A young man was sitting at home when a terrible rainstorm began. Within hours, the man’s house began to flood, and someone came to… — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“As a culture, we had no heroes. Certainly not any politician--Barack Obama was then the most admired man in America (and likely still is),… — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“To this day, being able to “take advantage” of someone is the measure in my mind of having a parent. For me and Lindsay,… — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: “It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural… — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“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… — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“There was, and still is, a sense that those who make it are of two varieties. The first are lucky: They come from wealthy… — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“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… — J.D. Vance Copy Share
“Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Chaos begets chaos. Instability begets instability.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share
