Names Grandparents Quote by J.D. Vance

“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

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

— J.D. Vance

“Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.”

— J.D. Vance

“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

“But I often wonder: Where would I be without them? I think”

— J.D. Vance

“the first impulse is escape, but people who lurch toward the exit rarely choose the right door.”

— J.D. Vance

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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