Quote by 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

“But hillbillies shared many regional characteristics with the southern blacks arriving in Detroit.”

— 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

Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of person.

— Michelle Dean

“no single book, or expert, or field could fully explain the problems of hillbillies in modern America. Our elegy is a sociological one, yes,…

— J.D. Vance

“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

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the…

— Quincy Jones

“When one-third of the population of the erstwhile Confederacy had consisted of the much-maligned Sons of Ham, the blacks had really been of economic,…

— George S. Schuyler

“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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