One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers that are unique to your circumstances -… — J. D. Vance Blue collar Copy Share Image
When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of… — J. D. Vance Book Copy Share Image
The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of… — J. D. Vance Country Copy Share Image
I used to go on chat rooms on AOL, back when those things existed, and argue with believers in evolution and argued… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I think what Trump will be judged on by the folks that voted for him... is whether things start to get a… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really,… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of… — J. D. Vance Data Copy Share Image
Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency… — J. D. Vance Age Copy Share Image
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren,… — J. D. Vance Death Copy Share Image
I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, church fish fries and picnics help build social cohesion. It was at my dad's medium-size evangelical church - my first real… — J. D. Vance Church Copy Share Image
Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet… — J. D. Vance Church Copy Share Image
During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three'… — J. D. Vance Chance Copy Share Image
I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
There are definitely some folks in my hometown who are unhappy with the way I portrayed my hometown... But I think most… — J. D. Vance Books Copy Share Image
As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure… — J. D. Vance Americans Copy Share Image
Faith gave me the belief that there was somebody looking out for me, that there was a hopeful future on the other… — J. D. Vance Belief Copy Share Image
Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to… — J. D. Vance Church Copy Share Image
To serve in the modern military - or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does - is to… — J. D. Vance Basic training Copy Share Image
When I started law school in 2010, I would have called myself an atheist. When I graduated law school in 2013, I… — J. D. Vance Atheist Copy Share Image
People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules,… — J. D. Vance Faith Copy Share Image
Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my… — J. D. Vance Chaos Copy Share Image
I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me… — J. D. Vance Catholic Copy Share Image
Politicians of both parties told us that free trade with Asia and Latin America would spur economic growth, and maybe it did… — J. D. Vance America Copy Share Image
I learned from my community how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well. I learned how to make a damn… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get… — J. D. Vance College degree Copy Share Image
For two years, I'd lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives. It's jarring to live… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
In communities like mine, we send our best and brightest to our armed forces. Our culture's elites, on the other hand, encourage… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails… — J. D. Vance Family Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be a practicing Christian in the 21st-century world if you set things up as, 'Everyone is against us.… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and… — J. D. Vance Vietnam Copy Share Image
If you had looked at my life when I was 14 years old and said, 'Well, what's going to happen to this… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in… — J. D. Vance Christian faith Copy Share Image
From the Marines, from Ohio State, from Yale, from other places, people have really stepped in and ensured that they filled that… — J. D. Vance Marines Copy Share Image
If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard… — J. D. Vance America Copy Share Image
