Ohio Senator and author J.D. Vance (in May 2024) and the cover of his book 'Hillbilly Elegy' The memoir, billed as “the true story of what a social, regional and class decline feels like when you were ...
Oscar Uhalde graduated high school in Athens, and is currently a freshman at Columbia University studying political science. In an age of increasingly shifting demographics, Democrats and Republicans ...
Some stories cling to the misty hills of Appalachia like the scent of pine and rain. Some are about miners who never came home, others about ghosts that light lanterns deep in the hollows. But none ...
Terra Vance is a distant cousin of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, and has garnered an online following for her lessons on Appalachia. Critical of how he portrays the region in his ...
A Fox News guest questioned Vice President JD Vance’s “hillbilly values” during a tense discussion about political protests and immunity for federal agents on Sunday. Corbin Trent, Rep. Alexandria ...
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. At the close of his RNC speech ...
Downtown Logan, W.Va., once a booming center of economic activity because of the coal mining industry. (Roger May / For The Times) Five generations of Vances gathered in West Virginia last month for a ...