I was raised in Coal City, West Virginia and when ... poverty of his ‘fellow’ hillbillies on their poor choices. “Instead, read literally anything else. Read Appalachian Reckoning which ...

Many Appalachian residents and writers ... Steve Williams, a Democrat running for governor of West Virginia, reacted on X. "I read 'Hillbilly Elegy.' It drove me crazy," he wrote.

I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" on election day ... on top of Muddy Creek Mountain outside of Alderson, West Virginia, a town of less than a thousand people nestled ...