09-01-2016, 02:48 PM
(09-01-2016, 09:11 AM)playwrite Wrote: Two other books in this area: Jim Webb's Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America and much more recently, JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis are also must-reads...
The deeper dive, however, is this new Hillbilly Elegy. Webb's book will tell you why Trumpism has emerged; Vance's book provides the longer-term insight of where these people are headed long after the election has past and the likely consequences for the rest of us.
I've just started into Hillbilly Elegy. It seems to me that Hillbillies are quite messed up.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.