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I thought the memoir was compelling at a narrative level, but I have met a number of people who move from the working class to the professional class who have expressed a similar feelings of alienation and and I wonder why it is that Vance in particular was given this platform between the memoir and becoming a talking head to represent the white working class in talk shows and such. I also wonder about his conservatism and what it's like to be a hardcore republican in the bay area.  My DH who has a similar cultural background and is close in age to Vance has completely different politics, and a completely different perspective on what kinds of policies would be beneficial to white, rural working class areas.  It's interesting to me that two people with such similar backgrounds and trajectories could arrive at such different perspectives on the world.[/quote]

I have gone from being a working class conservative from a poor area to being an educated liberal living in the DC area. To do so has meant I have lost coomon ground with most of my family. I will never be accepted again, so can understand how Vance would be an acceptable cross over. He is successful and educated, yet conservative--which is sadly the only acceptable way to be. It was not like that back in the 60s and 70s, but is the case now. I have a feeling I may agree more with your DH. Sadly, there are many of us who become lost without a place to ever again call home...once you leave physically or mentally, "you can never go home again."

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