"Hillbilly" has a longer history—in order to be a hillbilly, you have to be from a particular region.
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A "Hillbilly Elegy" in Trump country A "Hillbilly Elegy" in Trump country J.D. Vance grew up in an Ohio town where roughly 20 percent of kids don't graduate from high school.
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Which is why Hillbilly Elegy is such an important book.
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It was a little bit like the book "Hillbilly Elegy".
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To me that's a hillbilly, people who don't judge people.
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A "hillbilly" is just someone who lives in the hills.
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I've always heard the term "hillbilly" used my whole life.
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He's closer to a Beverly Hillbilly than one from Appalachia.
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In Polkland, Lee asks Hillbilly Boy if she can see Flora.
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These are not hillbilly people from rural north Louisiana or Mississippi.
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.
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Why do you think Hillbilly Elegy became so popular so quickly?
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SJ: What other things do you think Hillbilly Elegy gets wrong?
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We show it's a little bit like the Hillbilly Elegy narrative.
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Everywhere she went, she sang: folk, bluegrass, hillbilly, country and western.
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I read J.D. Vance's book Hillbilly Elegy, just got through that.
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It was such a dumb premise for a show: animated hillbilly squids.
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If you really wanted to, you could call their style hillbilly punk.
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The hillbilly would never think about trying to sound a different way.
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" 'Ramp Hollow' is not 'Hillbilly Elegy' redux," our critic Dwight Garner writes.
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For instance, in the "Hillbilly Moment" segments (in which she would tell knock-knock jokes as a stereotypical hillbilly), all anyone had to say was, "Now do a crazy dance," and she created her signature, elbows-out jig.
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Mama and Hillbilly Boy politely take the time to explain some family lore.
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J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy has been adopted as the book that explains Trumpism.
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" And she said, "We probably just sat around and listened to hillbilly records.
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" To quote Shelton, the girl's just got a "hillbilly bone down deep inside.
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J.D. Vance, 2202, author of "Hillbilly Elegy," is reportedly seriously considering a bid.
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Debbie Reynolds plays an actress who ends up adopting six adorable hillbilly children.
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In his book, "Hillbilly Elegy," J.D. Vance focused on poverty in Eastern Kentucky.
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When Hillbilly Boy tries to get back up, she stabs him, and limps off.
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance7.
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When I read Hillbilly Elegy , it seemed like this strangely flattened version of reality.
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To be able to walk that line, maybe it truly does take hillbilly shoes.
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Another possibility is J.D. Vance, author of the 2016 best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy.
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Titled Hillbilly Elegy, the book could not have come at a more fortuitous time.
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"Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" by J.D. Vance
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McConnell has spoken with J.D. Vance, the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," about running. Rep.
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HILLBILLY ELEGY: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance.
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On the other hand, the hillbilly vaudeville gives us something to watch and respond to.
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The author of the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy previously had ruled out a bid.
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"Redneck" and "hillbilly" are two of the most loaded, complex words in the American language.
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Check out this fascinating takedown of J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" in The New Republic.
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But it is both a cruel and stupid mistake to dismiss it as hillbilly music.
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Lee tries to soften up Hillbilly Boy by telling him about how much she loves Flora.
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We're as pure as it comes, and kind of hillbilly cider makers, in no way industrial.
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Amy Adams and Glenn Close will costar in an adaptation of the 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."
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One of the most favourably reviewed books was also a surprise bestseller: J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy".
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A hillbilly would have a weapon, but they would have already fired off all their shells.
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And "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance got a "lunch and learn" call from DeVos in July.
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Chief among them: How much should he hold his hillbilly kin responsible for their own misfortunes?
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Because I read lots of those stories about what's going on in Appalachia, the hillbilly eulogy.
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They either wanted me to play a hillbilly or a killer, sometimes at the same time!
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J.D. Vance, author of the best-selling "Hillbilly Elegy," was brought on as a managing partner.
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"The End of Eddy" is also a gay coming-of-age story; "Hillbilly Elegy" is not.
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"Obviously if you have a hillbilly beard, you can't fit a mask on it," said Adalja.
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For all his diabolical brilliance, he often comes across as a Beverly Hillbilly in designer slacks.
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Writing for theater is very different than just writing hillbilly songs or rock 'n' roll songs.
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Later that year, two more baristas from the Hillbilly Hotties stand were arrested after another undercover investigation.
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" —Evelyn H. "A much needed, fierce rebuttal to Hillbilly Elegy and about so much more than Appalachia.
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I&aposve read books like "Hillbilly Elegy," and everything I can to try to understand other folks.
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Luther Fox, a hillbilly fisherman in "Dirt Music" (2001), entertains himself with John Keats and Joseph Conrad.
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" Spokesperson and organizer Schuyler Lifschultz told Broadly: "[Hillbilly Hotties] is a hundred percent female owned and operated.
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I decided to read J.D. Vance's book, "Hillbilly Elegy," a few days after the November presidential election.
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Netflix has reportedly won the film rights to J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" after a tense bidding war.
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The Powerpuff Girls have battled a rogue's gallery of evil lab monkeys, hillbilly monsters and androgynous devils.
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D.] Vance [ author of "Hillbilly Elegy"] recently amassed a $150 million fund called 'Rise of the Rest.
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I used to sing duets with a friend of mine, doing country songs, hillbilly songs, cowboy songs.
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He also recognized the popularity of country music and added some hillbilly twang to his guitar lines.
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You can say I am a twerking, pot smoking, foul mouthed hillbilly but I am not a liar.
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She's a public historian and it's a rebuttal to Hillbilly Elegy and that way of historicizing this area.
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But there's something about the hillbilly... There's an innocence to it, maybe, but a quick flip into violence.
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"Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance is reportedly being urged to run by leading state GOP activists and donors.
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The scene is a roadside mart, where a hillbilly family is selling homegrown produce out of their car.
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Since his people originally come from Kentucky coal country, Vance claims the right to call himself a hillbilly.
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As part of the lobby, the Keep Shop stocks local wares like vintage clothing from High Class Hillbilly.
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"You can say I am a twerking, pot smoking , foul mouthed hillbilly but I am not a liar."
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Even after he gets a radio gig as a hillbilly performer, he continues to sing out for the dispossessed.
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And they offer a welcome respite for theatergoers who have yet to acquire a taste for energetic hillbilly hokum.
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You know, I just finished "Hillbilly Elegy," there's like nine books about the lost people of the United States.
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But you probably eat mice yourself when you run out of possum, you monster truck-loving, buck-toothed hillbilly.
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The film's anthem is John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads," a hillbilly elegy if ever there was one.
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One of her most recent reads was "Hillbilly Elegy," which she enjoyed despite some initial issues with the title.
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Sheridan's movies often have what I call the "Hillbilly Elegy problem," after the best-selling memoir by J.D. Vance.
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Did the popularity of Hillbilly Elegy and related media impact how you wanted to depict communities in Kentucky Route Zero ?
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We would like to thank Rocky Mountain High Brands for sponsoring Hillbilly Vegas as we tour across the United States.
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"You can say I am a twerking, pot smoking, foul mouthed hillbilly but I am not a liar," Cyrus said.
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Baristas at the Hillbilly Hotties chain are fighting back by filing a suit in the US District Court in Seattle.
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Like, I don't think a Kid Rock fan in Michigan who lives in a trailer would consider himself a hillbilly.
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But most of all I define 'hillbilly' values in a very finite way, and I make sure I live them. . . .
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Socioeconomically, she examines how so-called hillbilly heroin could go unnoticed in prosperous suburbs where it was no less lethal.
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This is a memoir that could have slithered off the road with colorful characters flattened to "Hee Haw" hillbilly stereotypes.
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Elvis Presley went from lean Hillbilly Cat to Famed Icon surrounded by a moat of enablers to Bloated Junkie Corpse.
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In "Hillbilly Elegy," Mr. Vance writes about the views his family passed on to him about those who were different.
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In 2017, Hillbilly Elegy author JD Vance argued that moving to middle America would save it, both economically and existentially.
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Suddenly overcome with an urge to confess, Lee asks Hillbilly Boy to film as she addresses Flora: She did kill Mason.
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Last week, Case announced he hired Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance to focus on seed investments in midwestern startups for Revolution.
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It started out as "hillbilly music," and morphed from bluegrass to the country/pop/hip-hop blend that it is today.
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Like 'Hillbilly Elegy,' this memoir thrillingly evokes the exultant climb out of poisonous isolation and into the life of the mind.
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Hillbilly music was playing on a radio, and I could see somebody—a woman—walk past a window without looking out.
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"Between the World and Me," by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and "Hillbilly Elegy," by J. D. Vance, have come up as well.
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Last week, the longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone trashed Sessions as an "insubordinate hillbilly" — expressing a double dose of hick hatred.
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After her "hillbilly fist fight" with Darlene, Wendy is getting wine-drunk and calling up Navarro looking to make another score.
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The emotive "Brooklyn hillbilly" side mourns the departure of an ennobling Barack Obama, and the temporary triumph of cynicism over hope.
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Hillbilly Man is a gentleman, so he offers Lee some cocaine to take the edge off — he needs part of her shoulder.
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Fulks, a self-proclaimed hillbilly, never took to city life, and filled a lot of his spare time in Philadelphia getting loaded.
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Hillbilly Elegy was seen as key to understanding the Appalachian and white working-class voters who carried Trump to the White House.
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Watch: The Australian Model Calling Out Fashion's Size Hierarchy The Hillbilly Hotties baristas filed their suit against city council on September 11.
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But Rich similarly compares something he terms "Hillbilly Chic" to "white elites in Manhattan then fawning over black militants" in the 1970s.
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You see rebel flags with "redneck" on them, but you don't see anything about "hillbilly pride" because nobody really... I don't know.
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"Are things tougher for the redneck filmmaker or the hillbilly filmmaker?" he shouted at Nichols, bringing the interview to an abrupt halt.
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I would guess that I have very little in common, politically, with J.D. Vance, author of the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy.
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Economic insecurity, he's convinced, accounts for only a small part of his community's problems; the much larger issue is hillbilly culture itself.
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Leading Republican activists and donors in Ohio are privately encouraging "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance to mount a bid for the Senate.
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Dave Joyce and venture capitalist J.D. Vance, known for his book "Hillbilly Elegy," are other potential candidates being mentioned by Republican strategists.
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The Herd say they play "Hillbilly ball," which means they spread the floor, run and take as many 3-pointers as possible.
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As for nonfiction, I wish everyone would read Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Between the World and Me" and J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" together.
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And they aren't content simply to put "Hillbilly Elegy" on the summer reading list for incoming students (which many colleges have done).
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" Middletown's gritty self-reliance and economic vulnerabilities have drawn attention before, chronicled in local author J.D. Vance's best-selling memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy.
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The owner of one stand, Hillbilly Hotties, and some baristas sued, saying the new ordinances violated the baristas' First and 14th amendment rights.
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"You can say I am a twerking, pot smoking, foul mouthed hillbilly but I am not a liar," the "Wrecking Ball" singer wrote.
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We can't wait to get out there and shake the world's hand and welcome them to Hillbilly Vegas and Rocky Mountain High Brands.
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The other is Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, which I know is controversial to many, but it, too, had real meaning for me.
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One was the Young Patriot Organization (YPO), which was based in Hillbilly Harlem, an uptown neighborhood of Chicago populated by displaced white southerners.
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Another by J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, was one of the sharpest critiques of libertarianism I've ever seen from a conservative.
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How do you explain what people saw in Hillbilly Elegy that made it so essential to this moment of upheaval in American life?
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To me, a real hillbilly is someone who lives for the hills, who really does care for their fellow man and their land.
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My mother is a hillbilly, My mother told me she walked barefoot every day, even in the snow, just to go to school.
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He took the "Hillbilly Highway" west looking for better opportunities and ended up in Chicago, though he returns regularly to see his family.
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J. D. Vance, author of "Hillbilly Elegy," his best-selling memoir of growing up in the postindustrial Midwest and his journey of escape.
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For hillbilly music, it was music by and for poor, working-class white people, and mainstream was for middle-class, wealthy white people.
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J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy tries to offer an insider's view (and is far more comfortable casting a critical eye on white working-class culture).
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"Me being a dumb-ass hillbilly, I didn't understand what was going on," he tells Mr McGreal after finally achieving sobriety four years ago.
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When you look at Elvis Presley, he was this kind of hillbilly crooner and nobody ever called the Beatles rock stars in the 1960s.
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The mom-to-be says she's "flattered" that visitors to the Swedish rural website Land have voted her "Lantis 2015" – literal translation: "Hillbilly 2015" .
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He said explicitly that when he read Hillbilly Elegy and other work about poor rural whites, it reminded him of his neighbors in Newark.
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Books of The Times In his influential memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy" (2016), J. D. Vance explains why some middle-class Americans turned against Michelle Obama.
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In March of 2017, JD Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, wrote a similar op-ed extolling the virtues of moving back to Middle America.
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SM: We've had people like Shepard Smith from Fox News, [the author of "Hillbilly Elegy" (2016)] J.D. Vance and [the Nebraska senator] Ben Sasse.
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Even so, others have decided to keep projects in Georgia, including Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Netflix movie "Hillbilly Elegy," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Some successful "2016" books don't directly concern the election but have lured readers by illuminating its underlying causes, like J.D. Vance's massively successful Hillbilly Elegy.
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Logan Lucky burrows deep in that myth, sets up shop, and demolishes its core — even as it sustains the generic shell of the hillbilly heist.
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I recently interviewed J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, who reflected on how his family members who know and love undocumented immigrants interpreted Trump's promises.
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At their simplest, a "redneck" originally meant someone who has been sunburned from working outdoors, and a "hillbilly" is someone who lives in the hills.
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J.D. Vance's memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy", offers a starkly honest look at what that shattering of faith feels like for a family who lived through it.
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The owner of Hillbilly Hotties, one such drive-thru coffee stand, sued over the city ordinances, claiming they violated baristas' First and 14th Amendment rights.
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J.D. Vance, who gained national recognition for his 2016 book, "Hillbilly Elegy," is seriously considering a run, an adviser to Vance told CNN on Wednesday.
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I was reminded often of J.D. Vance's fascinating work, Hillbilly Elegy, a book that shows what is truly happening in places like his hometown, Middletown, Ohio.
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There is no single definition for either "redneck" or "hillbilly," but here are a few personal ones that were shared with me: What's my life like?
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Two months after its release, Hillbilly Elegy hit the top of The New York Times bestseller list, thrusting author J.D. Vance somewhat reluctantly into the spotlight.
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Amy Goldstein's Janesville is this year's Hillbilly Elegy — the go-to volume for understanding what is really going on in the hearts of the U.S. midsection.
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SJ: In your book, you talk a lot about J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, which has been alternately praised and criticized for its depiction of the region.
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Before leaving, he acquired a new series for CBS that was to become one of the hallmarks of the post-hillbilly era, "All in the Family."
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In our latest campaign podcast, the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," a memoir of growing up as part of the white underclass, explains Mr. Trump's political rise.
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J.D. Vance, the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," is reportedly seriously considering a Senate bid and is in Washington this week to meet with Republicans about it.
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He recently read J.D. Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy," about the lives of poor white people in parts of the country that overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2016.
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In that movie, written by Budd Schulberg and directed by Elia Kazan, he played Lonesome Rhodes, a hillbilly singer who metamorphoses into a megalomaniacal television personality.
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She was born in rural Kentucky but grew up in Louisville as a member of what she calls the Hillbilly Diaspora of the 1950s and '60s.
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Hillbilly Elegy details bleak experience and describes the fault lines of a divided country, but its tone is resolutely measured, its bottom-line attitude conventionally patriotic.
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Hochschild tends toward views three and four (status conflict and economic displacement) while Vance gives a gritty, hillbilly-specific version of view one (cultural self-immolation).
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Then came J.D. Vance with "Hillbilly Elegy," a blend of memoir and sociology that's still selling well — after 16 weeks, it's No. 3 in hardcover nonfiction.
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After making his way through Yale Law, however, Vance wrote "Hillbilly Elegy," a memoir that landed on the New York Times Best Seller list this summer.
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While Vance admits to being a "hillbilly," a term of endearment among family, he also says it can be a cutting insult when used by outsiders.
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It includes a few thrillers, but also some serious nonfiction books like "Hillbilly Elegy" by J. D. Vance and "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi.
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Her notes lack the depth and understanding of J. D. Vance's memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," which depicts the frustrations and anger of poor white communities from within.
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Ross Douthat THE age of Trump has inspired soul-searching within our overclass — long nights reading "Hillbilly Elegy," mostly — but also a wave of cosmopolitan pride.
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Several of them told Camerota that they're starting to do that by reading J.D. Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy," which illuminates the concerns of working-class rural America.
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I'll always see Jimmi Simpson as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Liam McPoyle, a member of an incestuous hillbilly clan who knock back milk like it's whiskey.
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There was the book, Hillbilly Elegy, that was sort of about how the Trump moment was a consequence of the moral failure of the people living here.
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In his new memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," Vance chronicles his childhood in a poor Rust Belt town in eastern Ohio, and, in turn, documents a culture in crisis.
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And when you're ready for visions of an uncertain future, read Warren Ellis' techno-thriller Normal—or try to understand our own, with J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy.
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In short, we need to speak from the heart --– just as J.D. did in telling his story of the pain and pride of being from hillbilly country.
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Greenwich Village then was the epicenter of folk music, though many strummers of hillbilly and bluegrass tunes were the sons and daughters of the Bronx and Brooklyn.
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" We all have a sense of what that working-class honor code was, but if you want a refresher, I recommend J.D. Vance's new book "Hillbilly Elegy.
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Several editors and publishers said they were eager to acquire more narrative nonfiction books like "Hillbilly Elegy" that take a broader view of cultural and economic forces.
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J.D. Vance, the 32-year-old venture capitalist whose best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy chronicled the economic malaise in the Midwest, in February moved home to Ohio.
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His new book, "Hillbilly Elegy," now No. 6 on the New York Times best seller list, may be the best explanation yet of Mr. Trump's political rise.
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In his book "Hillbilly Elegy," Mr. Vance wrote with gratitude of the government programs that helped support him and his grandmother throughout his childhood and college career.
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Until the success of "Hillbilly Elegy" and the election of Mr. Trump, nonhillbillies showed equally little interest in exploring the differences between their cultures and Mr. Vance's.
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Shelton and Adkins, 57, released their first track together, "Hillbilly Bone" back in 2009, and Adkins has previously served as the key advisor for Shelton's Voice team.
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Hillbilly Elegy flatters its audience rather than challenging them, suggesting that poverty is a problem, yes, but not really one its readers have anything to do with.
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As Audrey says, there is no jury in America that would fault two women for killing an old hillbilly lady who was trying to turn them into jerky.
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Wittrock turned up on last night's episode for a split second, as Vanity Fair notes, playing a member of the nasty, hillbilly cannibal clan known as the Polks.
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His father routinely beat him; his mother died of a haemorrhage, when he was 12, because it was not thought worth sending an ambulance to "some excited hillbilly".
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Overall I think what fans of Hillbilly Elegy most like about the book is that it doesn't actually ask you to do anything with the knowledge it imparts.
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The latter has been examined by Charles Murray in Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 and, more popularly, by J. D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy.
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Filmmaker Ron Howard intends to go ahead with plans to shoot his next film, "Hillbilly Elegy" in Georgia despite calls to boycott the state over anti-abortion legislation.
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The GOP leader reached out earlier this year to J.D. Vance, author of the New York Times best-seller "Hillbilly Elegy," about running for the Ohio Senate seat.
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Vance, a 32-year-old venture capitalist and Marine veteran, rose to fame last year with his book "Hillbilly Elegy," which recounts his life and family in Ohio.
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"[Chess] couldn't believe that a country tune (he called it a 'hillbilly song') could be written and sung by a black guy," Berry wrote in his 1987 autobiography.
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" He went on: "We feel like we can do anything, and as long as you put that hillbilly voice on top of it, it's going to sound country.
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JD Vance, the bestselling author of "Hillbilly Elegy," has launched a new venture-capital fund as part of his continued efforts to restore prosperity to America&aposs heartland.
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The committee that chose "Hillbilly Elegy" had a "vigorous discussion" about it, said Sheila Stoeckel, director for teaching and learning programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries.
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Hillbilly was just announced as part of WWE's 2018 HOF class ... and he told us the news was so shocking, it damn near knocked him on his ass.
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"After much thought and deliberation, we decided to continue with shooting Hillbilly Elegy in Georgia next month," Howard and Grazer said a joint statement first reported by the Reporter.
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The Appalachian voices 'Hillbilly Elegy' left out Throughout the show, we cut from a football locker room to a heritage farm to a strip club and a strip mine.
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Meredith McCarroll, a scholar of Appalachia and co-editor of a book rejecting the monochromatic interpretation of the region offered by JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy," offered her own remembrance.
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But don't worry, Dan: no one wants to come to your nowhere little town to overdose, even if it is where bestselling Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance grew up.
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His memoir Hillbilly Elegy is a New York Times bestseller, acclaimed for its colorful and at times moving account of life in a dysfunctional clan of eastern Kentucky natives.
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A visualisation of how the statue would look like has circulated on Facebook "People say I'm a pagan, superstitious hillbilly [because of my idea]," Kartius told the Jakarta Post.
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In a culture that prizes toughness and honour, his family was "hillbilly royalty": his grandmother came from "a family that would rather shoot at you than argue with you".
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Last year, his interview with J. D. Vance, the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," was largely responsible for bringing the book to the attention of both liberal and conservative readers.
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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell reportedly discussed a bid with J.D. Vance, who wrote the part-memoir, part-sociological text Hillbilly Elegy which described his upbringing in Appalachian Ohio.
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I also recommend an Op-Ed in The Times today by J.D. Vance, the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," one of the most talked-about books of the past year.
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That is, unless you're Whitey Morgan, a son of Flint, Michigan with Southern roots, whose people migrated north via the Hillbilly Highway and never forgot where they came from.
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Now, she's set to adapt two renowned works of non-fiction for the big screen: Bad Blood and Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance's memoir about growing up in an Appalachian family.
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J.D. Vance, in his moving book (Hillbilly Elegy, part-memoir, part-elegy), offered that the church was the only social support left for towns wrecked by a lack of work.
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Author JD Vance, author of a new book "Hillbilly Elegy" on the working class white voters that form Trump's constituency, said the Republican nominee's supporters don't believe he is losing.
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So in the standing portions of the fight, Ngannou punched and Miocic boxed and most of the time Miocic came away better off and wasting less energy swinging hillbilly haymakers.
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Over the course of the episode, Cowen shares his thoughts on a wide range of topics, including health care, "PC culture", J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, and the racial wealth gap.
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J. D. Vance's enormously flawed Hillbilly Elegy was the year's breakout hit, thanks in large part to being embraced by the establishment class as an explainer for Trump's diehard base.
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We're told that only HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham (who published "Game Change") and executive editor Jonathan Jao (who edited "Hillbilly Elegy") initially knew Chozick had inked the deal in 2014.
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" Glitter & Sawdust is gorgeous Nashville pop with a honky tonk heart, from the hillbilly jam "Winchester's Gun" to a phenomenal cover of Little Big Town's 2015 pot-stirrer "Girl Crush.
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Sasse should follow the nonfiction he reads, like J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy," with a powerful novel like "An American Marriage," by Tayari Jones, or "Sing, Unburied, Sing," by Jesmyn Ward.
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Off to this strange land I went, having done no homework other than reading J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy," with a Missouri out-of-state hunting license in my suit pocket.
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WWE Hall of Fame inductee Hillbilly Jim says he'd be PUMPED if his old mentor, Hulk Hogan, enshrined him into the Hall ... since he owes his career to the Hulkster.
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Very notably, "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance, who ran the first fund with Case, has stepped back, and longtime Revolution investor David Hall will manage the second fund instead, reports Forbes.
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Another aphorism with a similarly nihilistic vibe—"Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse"—morphed from the lyrics of a 1955 hit by Faron Young, nicknamed the Hillbilly Heartthrob.
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The article framed Louis alongside JD Vance, whose rust belt memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, chronicles his upbringing in a benighted part of Ohio.
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" Then Roseanne tricks her granddaughter into cleaning a plate, and, when she does, Roseanne shoves Harris's head into the sink, hard, then sprays her, saying, "Welcome to the hillbilly day spa.
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That's where, from a white perspective, the real transgression lay, in rhythm and blues, race music, black vocal groups, gospel, blues and even in early country and western and hillbilly music.
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His memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, must have begun in stories he had to work out during earnest, not entirely comprehending conversations with his New Haven classmates: Where do you come from, J.D.?
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Kaz calls the neighborhood store clerk "store clerk," doesn't realize until episode four that his robot butler has a human pilot, and uses the slur "Hamptons hillbilly" to describe his cousin.
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Warning: The cast members will be very much in your midst throughout, sharing their glee at the chance to act up a hillbilly storm beneath that ol' sickled leopard's-tooth moon.
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You heard right, you sons of bitches, Cyrus told Rolling Stone Country today that he ain't having no more of that hillbilly bullshit and will be legally dropping his first name.
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Well, come win, lose, draw or disqualification, those hillbilly boys don't back down and are game for a fight with anyone, King Kong, Godzilla, Mike Tyson, Donald Trump, take your pick.
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It took a few dozen pages to see it, but once I did, it was very hard to unsee: Édouard Louis's "The End of Eddy" is the "Hillbilly Elegy" of France.
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They'd been headed to Jazz Fest, in Nola—Ernie K-Doe and Irma Thomas—but had wound up where there wasn't shit-all going on, unless it was hillbilly clog dancing.
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Although the Sausage Castle is located in a hillbilly town called Saint Cloud in front of Alligator Lake, newly constructed houses and a Walmart have begun popping up around the city.
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J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy," the surprise best seller published in 2016, is a frisky memoir with a bit of conservative moralizing dangling off, like the price tag on Minnie Pearl's hat.
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Artists began to record music in ways that easily lent themselves to classification, and after World War II, "race" music and "hillbilly" became "rhythm and blues" and "country and western," respectively.
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J.D. Vance, author of the book "Hillbilly Elegy," said Trump supporters in middle America voted for him because so few people -- including Clinton or her supporters -- had paid attention to their plight.
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In Wednesday's decision, Circuit Judge Morgan Christen said the Hillbilly Hotties owner and baristas were unlikely to show that serving coffee in a bikini was constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment.
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J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy and a principal with Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital, said late last year that he planned to leave Silicon Valley for his home state of Ohio.
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J.D. Vance, the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," is seriously considering a Senate run in Ohio and is meeting with Republicans in Washington this week to discuss a potential bid, according to BuzzFeed.
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The river Mr. Dylan tapped was deep and wide, encompassing folk, blues, gospel, "hillbilly" music and the stew of rock 'n' roll, to which he added his own strange, inexplicable Dylan thing.
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This autobiographical novel, a gay coming-of-age story about a boy who endures a brutal childhood and escapes his hometown, "is the 'Hillbilly Elegy' of France," a Times book critic wrote.
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As J.D. Vance recalls in his memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," comments about voters in parts of the country "clinging to their guns and their religion" didn't help Appalachian residents warm to Mr. Obama.
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Break out your overalls and your floppy country hat ... 'cause Hillbilly Jim is going to the WWE Hall of Fame -- and the wrestling legend tells TMZ Sports he could hardly believe it!
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How J.D. Vance, the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," and Tara Westover, who wrote "Educated," escaped physical and psychological horror is the dose of Charles Dickens that makes these two memoirs so memorable.
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But Hillbilly Elegy does something subtly pernicious: It suggests that on some level, poverty is a choice or, at worst, an inexplicable force that visits itself upon the people in Vance's story.
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Director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer are filming the movie "Hillbilly Elegy" in Georgia this summer but have announced they will boycott the state if the law goes into effect next year.
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But just as an umbrella, in the lyrics of Rihanna, is never actually an umbrella, a hillbilly heist movie, in the hands of Soderbergh, is never actually a movie about hillbillies stealing treasure.
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One of the first black icons of country music was DeFord Bailey, an outstanding harmonica player whose hillbilly records in the 1920s drew from the black folk music tradition he grew up with.
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From a grandmother who in her youth fell pregnant at the age of 14 to a mother struggling with addiction and a father who was often absent, "Hillbilly Elegy" is Vance's personal story.
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The big guys at CBS or the William Morris Agency are not gonna hotfoot it out to the Horn in Santa Monica where some unknown guy talks like a hillbilly and sings 'Pagliacci.
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Across the Cumberland River in East Nashville, the country artist Nikki Lane chooses the wide range of heritage pieces at High Class Hillbilly; the singer-songwriter's shop is famous for its vintage denim.
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" One can only imagine the high pomp attending that wretched circumstance; pitched to the dubious legitimacy of its occasion, it must have made the royal weddings seem like an elopement on "Hillbilly Handfishin'.
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Like killer clowns or satanic cults or axe-wielding hillbilly murderers in the woods, this is a monster that looms far larger in our culture's imagination than she ever has in our reality.
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Ms. Kelly interviews J. D. Vance, the author of the best-selling "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," as well as some of his family members and friends.
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Howard wanted to be a syndicated cartoonist from an early age and copied the styles of artists like Al Capp, whose "Li'l Abner," a satirical strip about a hillbilly clan, was extremely popular.
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If you're in the mood for nonfiction, follow along as authors explore America's low-cost housing crisis, hillbilly culture, a childhood in Syria, Queen Victoria's reign and a terminally ill neurosurgeon's final months.
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He'd tuck his unruly red hair under a trucker cap like, my mom used to say, a Wooly Booger—a crazy mountain man who, in the hierarchy of Southern slang, falls just below hillbilly.
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Jai Chabria, a former adviser to Kasich and a Republican consultant who worked with J.D. Vance when the Hillbilly Elegy author considered a Senate run in Ohio this year, warned against overanalyzing special elections.
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It's also the same place where Chris Brown once threatened a valet ... Justin Timberlake once took Cameron Diaz on a date ... and where Ray J threw a bachelor party for the "Hollywood Hillbilly" guy.
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Mixing the blues and R&B music popular with the African-American community, with the honkytonk "hillbilly" music popular with the white community, he created a new musical vocabulary with a unique crossover appeal.
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In 2016's Hillbilly Elegy and subsequent writing, Vance built his interpretation of Appalachia, the Rust Belt, and the Trump era on a sensitive but blinkered portrait of his own family's strengths and wounds.
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J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy," at No. 1, and Nancy Isenberg's "White Trash," at No. 13, are more reflective explorations of how poor white Americans have felt stigmatized and abandoned by elitism and electoral politics.
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His best-selling HILLBILLY ELEGY: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99) is an affectionate yet unflinching look at growing up in social and domestic chaos in southwestern Ohio.
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The co-founder of AOL has joined forces with J.D. Vance, the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," to promote entrepreneurship across the United States and seed investments in cities often overlooked by venture capital funds.
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Hillbilly says he's truly honored to be joining wrestling gods -- and friends of his -- like Andre the Giant, Captain Lou Albano, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, "Classy" Freddie Blassie, The Fabulous Moolah and Roddy Piper.
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She tells her youngest (I assume, I don't actually know any of their names, or how old they are — let's just call him Hillbilly Boy) to "cut your mama some nice filet" from Lee's leg.
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The self-styled West Virginia hillbilly, formerly a retail bread sales and delivery man, started traveling to medical research facilities around the country to volunteer as a test-subject for advanced prosthetics and experimental surgeries.
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"Top Senate Republicans have quietly reached out to J.D. Vance — the star author of 'Hillbilly Elegy' — about running for Senate in Ohio after the abrupt withdrawal of GOP candidate Josh Mandel last week," Politico reports.
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Though the self-described "hillbilly" artist ran screaming from his hometown of Chattanooga for New York and came of age in the 60s and 70s, the development of his word paintings seems much more current.
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For all his affection and empathy for his hillbilly brethren, he's not afraid to show the ways opportunities can be squandered not just by addiction or systemic failure but also out of laziness or stubbornness.
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But somehow, despite the hillbilly connotations of the banjo, or maybe because of it, Sera Cahoone's vocals on her new single "Up To Me" mystically transform the banjo into an instrument with depth and intonation.
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Ron Howard has said he will keep the production of "Hillbilly Elegy" in the state and donate to the ACLU, but that he would not return in the future should the law go into effect.
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Reading "Hillbilly Elegy," I understood why, on trips to regions like North Carolina's Piedmont, I sometimes felt that I'd travelled farther from New York than if I'd gone to West Africa or the Middle East.
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A new anthology, "Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to 'Hillbilly Elegy,'" edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll, presents the most sustained pushback to Vance's book (soon to be a Ron Howard movie) thus far.
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"We didn't have access to student records," said Frances Fish Tomkins, a self-described hillbilly who came to Finch in 1956 from West Virginia and never forgot making her first friends in a daunting city.
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He talked about drawing on what Depp called his "old hillbilly rage" to portray gangster Whitey Bulger in an interview with GQ last year "That's not necessarily that far from the surface at times," Depp said.
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I reached out to Vance on Wednesday to talk about his book, what he learned about the rural South and the white working class, and how Trump aligns with the story he tells in Hillbilly Elegy.
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He came to the industry's annual convention because he was tired of "the hillbilly attitudes" of developers "who want to do business in our neck of the woods", on the north-eastern corner of Lake Superior.
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"Hillbilly Elegy" author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance moved back to Columbus earlier this year with the goal of trying to figure out how to attract more money and talent to Ohio's fledgling startup scene. Why?
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A hillbilly is like my grandpa—he never had a bank account in his life, he lived off the land as much as he could, he was poor as shit, but he was happy as shit.
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McConnell reaches out to 'Hillbilly Elegy' author about Senate run Renacci, though, would be the candidate closer to Trump's orbit, and he has said he would need the White House's backing before getting in the race.
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"The End of Eddy" sold 300,000 copies in its first year after publication in 2014, when Louis was 21; "Hillbilly Elegy" has been on The New York Times's best-seller list for more than 40 weeks.
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The local band Lonesome Prairie Dogs have turned that tragic anniversary into a yearly celebration of Williams's life and work, gathering country musicians from around the city to cover their favorite odes by the Hillbilly Shakespeare.
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They [record executives] wanted to be able to sell records to a particular market, so the string band traditions were moved to the category of hillbilly music, which later became country, and sold to white audiences.
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The recently-named hillbilly of the year has been prepping for the arrival of their firstborn over the past few months, shopping for their new addition on a "babymoon" in Ängelholm, a small town in southern Sweden.
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Its characters share a general sense of downward mobility and disillusionment with the American dream, but there's no more effort put into demonization of their targets than there is a Hillbilly Elegy-style castigation of the Logans.
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Last night's episode saw the pop star return to the AHS fold as some sort of devilish, backwoods banshee who — wait for it — ends up sexing Gooding's character Matt in some sort of horrific hillbilly sex show.
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Booker's call to find common ground was couched in cultural terms, too, as he spoke about how he had read "Hillbilly Elegy," the hit book by J.D. Vance that dwells on the plight of poor, white Americans.
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"Hillbilly Elegy," in my mind, divides into two components: the family stories Mr. Vance tells — most of which are no doubt better experienced on the page than they were in real life — and the questions he raises.
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Today we're premiering Shiflett's video for "West Coast Town," featuring several famous Santa Barbara haunts (including one of my favorites, Jedlicka's Saddlery) and a reminder that even cozy California beach towns have hillbilly hearts Surf's up, partners.
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Yes, it's enriching to try local living in several of the capital's quirky and charming "villages", but the price of the flexibility to swiftly switch from being a Notting Hillbilly to a hip Hoxtonite has been high.
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There's treatment of how the "hillbilly" evolved in mainstream consciousness: originally a noble outsider, valiantly resisting the excesses of modernization; eventually a backward peasant, unable to adjust his behaviors and attitudes to the realities of the economy.
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" We do not recommend that you read the comments; for every critic ("That is some of the most hillbilly shit I've ever seen") there's a vocal Belle's supporter telling members of these marginalized groups to "grow up.
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On J.D. Vance's hit book Hillbilly Elegy and how it's been used to frame the conversation about rural America I think it represents a narrative that has been very much left out of the general public conversation.
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J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy admonishes the white working class that encourages "reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible" — yet he also has words for the upper-class elites and the aspirational (and diminishing) upper middle class.
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Far from being vehicles of their own oppression, as suggested in J.D. Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," many residents of coal country feel forced to abandon the fight in favor of preserving their social relationships and peace of mind.
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If you read J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy," you might want to pick up the book our critic deemed its French counterpart: "The End of Eddy," an autobiographical novel about growing up alienated and economically immobile in rural France.
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"One of our favorite moments was 'clogging' (hillbilly dancing) with our family and Marcia Campbell of the Opry Squaredancers as the Time Jumpers played our favorite Shawn Camp song, 'Tune of the Twenty Dollar Bill,&apos" the singer said.
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Mr. Howard and Mr. Grazer said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter that they plan to go ahead with "Hillbilly Elegy" but will "boycott the state as a production center" if the law goes into effect in January.
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Ron Howard has said that he will keep the production of "Hillbilly Elegy," also from Netflix, in the state and donate to the A.C.L.U., but that he would not return in the future should the law go into effect.
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Just after the November election, readers flocked to books like Arlie Russell Hochschild's "Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right" and J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" to understand the political revolution few saw coming.
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J. D. Vance, who wrote Hillbilly Elegy, reminded me that these studies from MIT and Harvard showed there's a direct correlation between the factories that went overseas, the billets and jobs that went with them and the opioid crisis.
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I was just listening to "Hillbilly Elegy," I've read it, but was listening to it, and I've just been struck recently by the part where J.D. Vance goes to a dinner, I think it was at Yale Law School.
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"I don't think people are going to be concerned about this back home," said J.D. Vance, a former Marine and Yaw Law School graduate who wrote "Hillbilly Elegy," a memoir of his childhood in a poor town in rural Ohio.
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He toured with the Strawberry Pickers, a hillbilly band, plus a corn-husk mop and suds bucket (for contributions), with which he promised to clean up Montgomery, the state capital, just as Mr Trump said he would "drain the swamp".
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And I was on a four wheeler, actually — my dad had this four wheeler, this is how hillbilly we are, we had a radio attached to the four wheeler — and I heard it and I screamed, and started freaking out.
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Other filmmakers have taken the route of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, who said they'll proceed with plans to film their Netflix movie "Hillbilly Elegy" in Georgia while making a donation to the ACLU to fight the anti-abortion legislation.
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Sporting a bizarre accent that could be described as pre-hillbilly specked with traces of indeterminate lower-class 19th century urban, the equally disheveled-looking Hardy creates a genuinely disturbing character whose primary trait is untrustworthiness on a psychotic level.
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We focused on the effects of the declining coal industry, systemic problems with the healthcare system, the struggle against the obliteration of mountains due to strip mining, the drug epidemic, and the history and meaning of the terms redneck and hillbilly.
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JD Vance's " Hillbilly Elegy" has become a best-seller in part because of what it has to say about the affinity of working-class whites for Trump, whom they see as a defender of a patriotic culture that is falling away.
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"It's hard to make a difference in San Francisco as a single entrepreneur," said J.D. Vance, the author of 'Hillbilly Elegy' and a managing partner at Revolution's Rise of the Rest Fund, which backs seed-stage companies based outside Silicon Valley.
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However, in recent years, that image has been disrupted with revealing books such as J.D. Vance's compelling "Hillbilly Elegy" and stark data showing rural areas are lagging in prosperity and facing rising social ills such as opioid overdoses and teenage pregnancy.
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Later in the summer, former CIA officer Evan McMullin announced an independent presidential campaign, and was endorsed by a host of Never Trumpers, including Weekly Standard founder Bill Kristol, National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg, and Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance.
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The legislation was a tough-on-crime response to rising meth usage, he says — a way to fight back against "the hillbilly crack" — and was written based on the weight triggers for crack cocaine, since lowered by the Fair Sentencing Act.
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Immediately after the election, books like J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" and George Packer's "The Unwinding," which both examine the country's growing cultural and political divisions and the grievances of the white working class, shot up on Amazon's best-seller lists.
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And he frames his critique generously, stipulating that it isn't laziness that's destroying hillbilly culture but what the psychologist Martin Seligman calls "learned helplessness" — the fatalistic belief, born of too much adversity, that nothing can be done to change your lot.
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I had written about Nudie and Hank Williams in The Haunted Hillbilly, and about Schiaparelli and Jimmie Rodgers in The Show That Smells, and this was supposed to be the third book in a trilogy about country music and fashion.
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In the memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," new at No. 9 on the hardcover nonfiction list, Vance details his childhood in a poor Ohio town among a chaotic extended family with a mother who turned to drugs and a string of unstable relationships.
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At 22, he left Sao Paulo with nothing, learned English listening to Marty Robbins and "Sesame Street," moved to Nashville to join the "hillbilly heaven" scene in 1994 and five years later bought one of the city's most famous honky tonks.
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Kay Starr, the self-described hillbilly singer who crisscrossed jazz, country, pop, blues and rock 'n' roll in the 1950s with hits like "Wheel of Fortune" and "Rock and Roll Waltz," died on Thursday at her home in Los Angeles.
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You may quarrel with Mr. Vance's conclusions — he holds his hillbilly kin personally responsible for much of what ails them — but the love he feels for his culture is palpable, and his book is intelligible to Democrats and Republicans alike.
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There are horror movies, like the mother-protector fable "The Babadook"; the newly released killer-hillbilly thriller "Killing Ground"; and action films like the Oscar-winning "Mad Max: Fury Road," with its throbbing emphasis on survival and tricked-out vehicles.
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JD Vance, the bestselling author of "Hillbilly Elegy," has launched a new venture-capital fund with backing from billionaire Peter Thiel and other Silicon Valley investment elites as part of his continued efforts to restore prosperity to America&aposs heartland.
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Puerto Rican drivers were quizzed, lawsuit says In his lawsuit, Caban Gonzalez said employees used a document titled "Puerto Rican Interview Guide" to quiz Puerto Rican drivers about fritters, frogs, hillbilly hats, baseball players and customs on their native island.
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Burns weaves a coherent story from disparate parts, using iconic characters like Hank Williams, the self-destructive "Hillbilly Shakespeare," and Johnny Cash, the "Man in Black" who managed to be both a traditionalist and counter-culture icon, as narrative anchors.
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Bourdain's Appalachian empathy endures for the rest of us J.D. Vance, raised in the Rust Belt with ties to Appalachia, rose to prominence with the publication of "Hillbilly Elegy" coinciding with (and enabling) his own political climb and birth as a venture capitalist.
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The 'Hillbilly Elegy' author is joining Revolution LLC, the venture-capital outfit founded by Steve Case, as a partner who will focus on the firm's initiative to identify and back infant companies in cities far from the tech capital of Silicon Valley.
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His strategic instincts were made clear enough though for us to anticipate that a Trump foreign policy will indeed be what Walter Russell Mead, editor of "The American Interest," labels "Jacksonian" (or "hillbilly populist"), after Andrew Jackson, the 19th century American president.
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What Dolly's pride did for the hillbilly, for so-called white trash, Cardi B is doing for ratchet girls in the hood, for a certain type of black or brown woman who's often imitated or ridiculed, for unashamed and self-proclaimed hoes.
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Before Donald Trump nabbed the Rust Belt vote to go on to win the election, writer J.D. Vance wrote about his experience growing up among the underrepresented white, working-class people living in Ohio and Kentucky in his reported memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
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"A man wants to change to a woman, he's got a mental problem," Mr. Clodfelter said on Wednesday over lunch at Spiro's Family Restaurant, where posters by the door advertised classes on carrying concealed weapons and a "Hillbilly Sunday" Pentecostal church service.
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For a sensitive, decidedly non-hysterical explanation of this year's politics of disruption, I'd suggest "Hillbilly Elegy" by J. D. Vance, whose memoir of a turbulent childhood in Middletown, Ohio, doubles as a work of sociology illuminating the despair of the white underclass.
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John Cena and Nikki Bella were all gussied up ... joined by Michelle McCool, Shane McMahon, Stephanie McMahon and Booker T. Bill Goldberg was inducted into the Hall of Fame, along with Ivory, Jeff Jerrett, The Dudley Boyz, Hillbilly Jim and Mark Henry.
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Referring to an idea laid out by J. D. Vance in the book "Hillbilly Elegy," Mr. Staemmler said that while church, family and country serve as mainstays of community in the American Midwest, such anchors are missing in the former Communist east.
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I was aware of the drug problem before I moved here, thanks to Oxycontin's nickname of "hillbilly heroin" and movies like Oxyana, and like just about anything else involving drugs, this was an aspect of West Virginia that both attracted and repelled me.
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Based on: "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" by J.D. VanceRelease date: November 2020Synopsis: A Yale Law School graduate and former marine recalls his life growing up in rural Appalachian Kentucky, and how the Midwestern white working class is declining.
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Floyd Patterson, a moody, sensitive introvert, was the champion, and his challengers included an amateur, an inadequate Texas hillbilly, a human windmill who lost the power to defend himself and a Swede who beat Patterson once, lost twice and went home with his money.
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I like J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy," but Putnam's work is, I think, the big backdrop for understanding the vicious cycle of how declining economic opportunities for the non-educationally credentialed and family and neighborhood collapse are becoming mutually reinforcing for broad swaths of America.
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In a question-and-answer session, Ms. Haspel fielded questions about recent movies she had seen ("Red Sparrow," about a Russian intelligence agent and the C.I.A.), favorite books ("Hillbilly Elegy"), preferred Johnny Cash songs ("Ring of Fire" and "I Walk the Line") and Kentucky whiskey.
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Books I have enjoyed include "Exit West," by Mohsin Hamid, "This Is How It Always Is," by Laurie Frankel, "Reading With Patrick," by Michelle Kuo, "An Everlasting Meal," by Tamar Adler, "Hillbilly Elegy," by J. D. Vance, and "Lincoln in the Bardo," by George Saunders.
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The spectator area is a Hawaiian hillbilly carnival filled with drug addicts, families, surf groms looking on with fear and ambition, media types—everyone trying to understand why a man or woman would put themselves in position to get thrown by a liquid god of a wave.
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While tracing back the roots of country rap could take you a number of places—back to "Talking Blues," to "Hillbilly Rap," or onto Kid Rock's AllMusic page—a great place to start, in terms of the trap-drums-laden modern sound, is with Bubba Sparxxx.
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One local wireless ISP, Hillbilly Wireless, only serves a portion of the region, for example: Mark Wigfield, an FCC spokesman, told me while the data isn't perfect, the FCC believes it's the best possible option for figuring out where this money would do the most good.
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More bizarrely, fans of Hillbilly Elegy, a book about how hillbillies are responsible for the fact that they are poor, are pushed toward three books that offer a broader and more incisive critique of poverty in America: Evicted, $2.00 A Day, and Strangers In Their Own Land.
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The Silicon Valley congressman didn't merely read "Hillbilly Elegy", he's ventured from the land of knit-wool loafers and wood-grilled avocado (with ponzu and wasabi) to meat-and-potatoes Rust Belt Trump Country to sell the MAGA crowd on the virtues of the New Economy.
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The singer's self-titled début album, released last year, was made up of eleven haunting love songs and murder ballads, borrowed from the outlaw-country movement of the nineteen-seventies, when a genre condescendingly referred to as hillbilly music shifted toward something more muted and enduring.
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This attempt to confront France's ruling class with the consequences of its neglect made the novel, soon translated into over 20 languages, an unlikely sensation; when it appeared in English in 2017, it attracted comparisons to Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance's memoir of growing up poor in Appalachia.
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In his book, which is a must read by the way, Hillbilly Elegy, he lays out his upbringing in Appalachia's working class and explains the importance of striving to overcome obstacles — and startups outside the Valley have different obstacles to overcome than those located around San Francisco.
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If you liked "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," J. D. Vance's best-seller about growing up in Ohio and the decline of the industrial Midwest, I think you'll find that "Janesville" makes these issues real in a new and compelling way.
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Humanly Possible Your interests in both "Hillbilly Elegy" and "Reading With Patrick" lead me to the Montreal novelist Dany Laferrière's lucid, episodic memoir of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, "The World Is Moving Around Me," a gorgeous reminder of the power of compassionate literature in troubled times.
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In a New York magazine piece titled "No Sympathy for the Hillbilly," Frank Rich wrote that white voters without a college degree, who went for Trump by 39 points, are never going to come around — no matter how much this president turns his back on them.
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Any attempt to write a "Hillbilly Elegy" about liberal America quickly runs up against the problem that it is easier to generalise about Republican voters because the groups that make up the party are bigger and have more in common with each other, in terms of ideology and identity.
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Other surprise appearances included Trace Adkins, who got the crowd roaring when he joined Blake Shelton on their "Hillbilly Bone"; Little Big Town's Karen Fairchild, who brought feminine charm to Darius Rucker's "If I Told You"; and what would Chris Young's "Think of You" be without Cassadee Pope?
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Millar's story, for example, opens with a band of evil hillbilly Hulk brothers (don't ask) threatening to murder Wolverine's family if he doesn't pay rent on what is essentially the family farm, and Lemire's series features elegiac images of a hat-clad Logan riding a horse into the sunset.
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"Absolutely yes, because we were around working counter-signals and red-pilling members of those J.D. Vance hillbilly enclaves way before any of you in the mainstream media caught up," said Ohio native Metacom Berg, an alt-right supporter I had previously profiled during the Republican National Convention.
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Howard and Grazer, who run Imagine Entertainment, told The Hollywood Reporter in an exclusive statement that although they are continuing with their plans to film the movie "Hillbilly Elegy" in Georgia next month, they will boycott the state as a production center if the law goes into effect in January.
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle ruled 3-0 against the owner and five baristas at Hillbilly Hotties, a chain of drive-up coffee stands, by lifting a lower court injunction against both the dress code and a related ordinance that expanded Everett's definition of "lewd" conduct.
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It was this dilemma that helped make J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" a runaway best seller in 2016 — the tale of a young man who'd overcome the dysfunctions of his transplanted Appalachian family to ascend to the Ivy League and Silicon Valley, with plenty of culture shocks along the way.
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At least four schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have chosen a best seller written by a young conservative: J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," which explores issues of social breakdown among working-class whites, such as drug use and child neglect.
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"If you visit my bookstore to trade in that copy of 'Hillbilly Elegy' you picked up at a book signing, I'll need to take down your name and address and then provide it to whoever happens to buy the book from me," said Scott Brown, who runs Eureka Books in Eureka.
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But even the snobbiest viewers will gain a new appreciation of country—along with jazz, among the most American of musical genres, a simple-seeming but complex blend of old world and new, rural and industrial, African-American blues and hillbilly reels, Sunday mornings at church and Saturday nights at honky-tonks.
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Morgan's hillbilly characters are the not-so-distant cousins of the poor citizens of Dogpatch, the fictional village found in the long running syndicated comic strip, Lil Abner (1934-2019), and the less fortunate friends of the Clampett family, who were the central characters on the popular TV comedy, The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–71).
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"Guided by Sam Phillips, young musicians like Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis combined the styles of hillbilly country with the 1950s R&B sound created by artists like Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Fats Domino and Ike Turner, and changed the course of music forever," reads a network-provided logline.
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"I was about to make a payment on a washing machine at 18 years old to Sears every month, and that meant I really wasn't goin' anywhere, because I had to pay it off for 18 months or whatever the fuck," Lane says over the phone from her vintage shop, High Class Hillbilly, in Nashville.
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And now President Obama's proposed 2017 budget includes $1 billion for the expansion of M.A.T. What looks like a common-sense investment in Washington looks more complicated here in Appalachia, where the OxyContin "hillbilly heroin" epidemic began back in the 1990s and where opioid overdose death rates remain among the highest in the nation.
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Once upon a time, lower-income people were willing to pull up stakes and move to places with greater opportunity — think of the people who fled the Dust Bowl for California in the 1930s, or those who took the "Hillbilly Highway" out of Appalachia to work in Midwestern factories, or Southern blacks on the Great Migration.
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Caleb Cain, Roose's subject, illustrates the first argument, to the extent that he seems like a character from the pages of Charles Murray's "Coming Apart" or Tim Carney's "Alienated America" or J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy," to cite just the most prominent right-leaning authors who have written about lower-middle-class decay: The internet was an escape.
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Now, J.D. Vance — who rose to fame after penning a memoir ("Hillbilly Elegy") but who has also worked as an investor, including as principal for Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital Management and more recently as a managing director with Revolution — has swung open the doors of his own Midwest-focused venture fund, Narya Capital, based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Our discussant, Ian Shapiro, suggested that we also consider the role of economic inequality (a theme also discussed in the earlier comparative panels) and recommended Arlie Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land, Katherine Cramer's The Politics of Resentment, and J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy in order to understand the despair of the now-storied white working class.
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If High Top Mountain was his hillbilly tribute to where he was raised in Kentucky, then his follow-up album Metamodern Sounds in Country Music was his tribute to his time in the Navy as a young man, partying his tits off as often as possible to escape the rare monotony of being in the Navy when there wasn't a war going on.
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Whaley said that the mayor of Hamilton, Ohio called her in a panic because of what the HTC has done for Hamilton, a town of roughly 60,000 which is located close to the setting of "Hillbilly Elegy," the memoir by the venture capitalist J.D. Vance about growing up in rural America that was viewed as prophetic in the wake of Trump's election.
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He awakens in 2505, in a society where the intellectual elite have stopped reproducing, leaving the country in a putrefying trash heap (with actual mountains of garbage) of ubiquitous corporate branding and monster-truck competitions, where spoken language consists of "hillbilly, Valley-girl, inner-city slang and various grunts," and narcotized couch potatoes sit in armchairs with built-in toilet seats.
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At the same time, they hit lots of the standard murderous hillbilly tropes for most of the game: they're a dirty, sadistic, squabbling Southern family in a decaying plantation, with a bunch of taunts about Ethan being a weak city boy, which dear loving god I heard over and over because it took me a solid hour and a half to beat one of the boss fights.
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" He has since moved on to many other projects: The day after he wrapped on "Solo," he was in a meeting on a documentary he is directing about Pavarotti, and he is continuing to develop films adapted from Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book" and J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy," as well as a possible limited-series TV show based on Jon Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven.
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The story of this transformation, as told from the coasts, tends to be one of down-and-out heartland cities hustling to remake themselves in the image of Silicon Valley, often with the help of missionary venture capitalists like AOL cofounder Steve Case and Hillbilly Elegy author J. D. Vance, who unveiled a $150 million investment fund called Rise of the Rest in 2017.
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They may be aware of them—they probably read Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance's fashionable portrait of Appalachian dysfunction, at some point in the last four years—but if there is a connection between "politics" and the state of those places in their minds, it is a tenuous one: They believe, if only vaguely, that politicians and their policies could have had a hand in creating this state of affairs.
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Edgers gives us the hyper-amusing blow-by-blow of just how this duet came alive, from the back-and-forth of lyrical expletives in the studio — Run called Tyler's lyrics "hillbilly gibberish" — to the recording of a music video that is both harbinger and metaphor for the song's legacy: Here were the two groups literally breaking down the wall between them so they could rock out — rap out?
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I, too, am a white evangelical, and after watching Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's economic speech in Detroit on Monday, I believe that what we need here is a hillbilly who loves Jesus and isn't buying it.
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These are the same folks, many of them, who questioned the legitimacy of Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonTensions between McConnell and Schumer run high as trial gains momentum Nadler gets under GOP's skin 'Emotion' from Trump's legal team wins presidential plaudits MORE's presidency throughout, hoping that the Whitewater scandal, the "Steele dossier" of its day, would finish him and who ended up impeaching him for, well, hillbilly handfishin' with a White House intern and telling a whopper under oath.
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