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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read it over the summer. I'm from Cincinnati and JD Vance grew up right outside of Cincinnati. His timing just happened to be perfect so he's been on CNN, MSNBC, etc. multiple times. I do give him credit for making it from "hillbilly" to Yale Law Grad and in a weird confluence of people, his mentor was "Tiger Mom" at Yale Law. She encouraged him to write the book[/quote] If you actually read the book he wasn't a hillbilly, not even close. His mom was the salutatorian of her class in a prosperous middle class town. I don't know any trailer trash whose moms had 4.0s in high school. I don't know any trailer trash whose grandpa casually came home in new Buicks and Cadillacs. The whole angle for claiming he's white trash is degenerate family back in Kentucky, oh, and a mom who was attractive enough to have a bunch of guys interested in her.[/quote]
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