As someone from Missouri reading Hillbilly Elegy, I was also just like is this what you all rly think of people from poor areas??? The people I grew up with aren’t poor bc they’re morally bad or uniquely foolish. Actually got into an argument w a friend about it at the time, she believed the book

Anyway fuck that book and fuck Vance. Fuck national media being so willing to give so much air to one white man’s bullshit theory of what’s wrong with people who didn’t grow up middle class on the coasts.