"What is the American Dream?" First Session with J.D. Vance and Darrick Hamilton on youtube

JD Vance, our next hillbilly president?

From a review of his book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance. He got a 4 star rating on GoodReads

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27161156-hillbilly-elegy?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=71sxH4nx9W&rank=1

From one of the reviews on GoodReads by Bill Kerwin

The hillbilly seeking the American Dream in industrial Ohio was always “a stranger in a strange land”, for he cleaved to his Appalachian identity—the church in the wildwood, the old folks in the hollers—and returned to the welcoming hills every chance he could get. But economic decline left its mark on both mountain culture and urban manufacturing. Opportunities shrunk, hard liquor was supplemented by painkillers and heroin, church attendance fell and so did belief in the American Dream.