When I learned in another article that Vance’s grandparents had moved out of Appalachia to find work in the steel mills of Ohio, I thought how his background is really no different than part of my famiy’s— they moved out of coal mine country to find work in the midwest.
Major differences: 1) No one in my family wrote about how they managed to escape the supposed hellhole, 2) No one went off and made a fortune after as a venture capitalist or became a politician after
/2 🧵