Quote by J.D. Vance

“Ostensibly, they were of the same racial order (whites) as those who dominated economic, political, and social power in local and national arenas. But…

— J.D. Vance

“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

“It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers ‘out of place’ in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites. Rather,…

— J.D. Vance

“It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers ‘out of place’ in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites. Rather,…

— J.D. Vance

“Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level.”

— J.D. Vance

“Blacks and whites in the South have had to learn to live together in a new way. Up north, they're getting acquainted for the…

— Herman E. Talmadge

“Stubborn breaks when it don’t bend, and his family had spent too much time with the kindly white folks in the north. Kindly in…

— Colson Whitehead

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

— Anna Sui

“The same was true of Charles Murray’s seminal Losing Ground, another book about black folks that could have been written about hillbillies—which addressed the…

— J.D. Vance

“It was only after Detroit that riots became known as primarily urban phenomena, ultimately centered on inner-city blacks venting their frustrations on the ghettos…

— Isabel Wilkerson

People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries"…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates