JD Vance on the problems with hillbilly culture
JD Vance reflects on the ways he his upbringing didn't prepare him for the elite world he moved into and why so many poor white people support Trump.
Yale Law GraduateJD Vance grew up steeped in Ohiohillbilly culture. Although he now is a successful author of Hillbilly Elegy: AMemoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, he still remembers being called 'white trash' as a kid.
JD talks aboutis 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.