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I'm kind of surprised 'Hillbilly Elegy' hasn't come up yet. [1] http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-lives-of-poor-white-people http://www.new
by sanjeetsuhag 10y ago
I'm kind of surprised 'Hillbilly Elegy' hasn't come up yet.
[1] http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-lives-of-poor-white-people http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-lives-...
[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-original-underclass/492731/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-orig...
- Bartweiss 10y agoI feel like this deserves a link to the rebuttal. I'm not embracing it (or Jacobin), but it's a plausible indictment of Elegy. On a related note, it should be noted that the average Trump supporter earns more than the average white American. There's a more subtle grouping here than "rural poor". [1] https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/hillbilly-elegy-review-jd-vance-national-review-white-working-class-appalachia/ https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/hillbilly-elegy-review-jd...