Despite the shoeless-yokel stereotype, hillbillies are mostly independent-minded and self-reliant people with an aversion to postmodernism and Big Brother. Paraphrasing Sturgill Simpson from his song, ...
I didn’t read “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance because of its No. 1 ranking on The New York Times’ bestseller list. I read it because of its setting in ...