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JD Vance on the problems with hillbilly culture

CBC Radio | Posted: September 15, 2016 3:46 PM | Last Updated: September 15, 2016

Image | J.D. Vance - Hillbilly Elegy author

Caption: JD Vance talks to Piya about his difficult childhood, the ways he feels his lower class upbringing didn't prepare him for the elite world. (Naomi McColloch)

Audio | Out In The Open : 'Hillbilly at Heart' JD Vance on the problems with his culture

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Yale Law Graduate JD Vance(external link) grew up steeped in Ohio hillbilly culture. Although he now is a successful author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis(external link), he still remembers being called 'white trash' as a kid.
JD talks about is difficult childhood, the ways he feels his culture didn't prepare him for the elite world, and why so many poor white people support Trump.

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