What J.D. Vance gets wrong about Appalachia

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By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman

J.D. Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy was a springboard to a political career, and now, to the Republican Vice Presidential nomination. But Tina Irvine argues in Made by History that Vance has deployed a tactic used by everyone from 19th century Protestant missionaries to a prominent college president to 20th century eugenicists: tell a distorted and mythologized tale of the region’s white residents—painting them as both poor and backwards, yet possessing something fundamental to American identity—in order to advance a person or group’s own goals. This approach persists because Americans have continued to grapple with the same issues since the 19th century: economic insecurity, racial anxiety, and questions about who America is for. The elegy Vance wrote, Irvine writes, was for an imagined people and place—but its political impact was real.

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