‘JD Vance is not a hillbilly — he’s a fraud’

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‘JD Vance is not a hillbilly — he’s a fraud’

(By Willie Carver, poet and writer)

“… Vance is not Appalachian.

“He was born and raised in Middletown, Ohio, well outside any maps of the distinct geographical and cultural region …

“Appalachia is simply a rhetorical device for Vance that he used to launch a political career.

“[His] political goal is to blame the poor for their own problems …

“Vance … [presents] supposed anecdote after supposed anecdote of cultural depravity and … knows the answer to what ails Appalachia is political conservatism …

“The ‘hillbilly’ twist … allows poor white folks living in swing states … to draw a quick line of demarcation around themselves — hardworking but poor Americans — and the supposed immoral, lazy welfare queens and absent, violent hillbilly fathers spreading into their cities and towns …

“This hillbilly does not trust JD Vance.”

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy-trump-vp-appalachia-rcna162105