Silas House, a writer from Kentucky, said he’s always seen Hillbilly Elegy as Vance’s political launch pad. We can see now that it clearly was.’ ...

A (Hillbilly) History of Mountain Dew”, is on display through ... as well as artifacts from Knoxville’s 1910 Appalachian Exposition. One case contains a variety of “hillbilly” memorabilia ...

"Hillbilly Elegy," to her, is an out-of-touch story about lazy Appalachian folk who made poor ... Terra Vance drove along winding roads through mountain hollows draped with wild kudzu, past ...

On the next Mountain Monsters for Travel Channel, A Monster Turf War pits the Appalachian monster hunters ... a tutorial in do-it-yourself hillbilly hazmat suits, a revelation about Trapper ...

I’ve never used the fact that I lived there for five years to claim I’m from Appalachia – unlike JD “He Ain’t From Here” Vance, who claims an Appalachian upbringing because he summered ...

Vance was shortly after his book, Hillbilly Elegy ... I told him I was working on a book about women from the Appalachian Mountains, about the hill women who hold communities together.

JACKSON, Ky. (WYMT) - Former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance’s victory in the presidential election will ...

When J.D. Vance’s hillbilly antecedents came pouring out of the Appalachian mountains into the factory towns of Ohio, they were looking for jobs and a decent standard of living. They were ...

Although collections of Appalachian ballads and cowboy songs had been published in 1917 and 1920, the music of rural White folk of the South between the eastern mountains and the western plains ...

The Roadkill Cook-Off put the town of Marlinton, W. Va., on the map, in a state that’s a hearty stew of homey mountain towns.

After his Fox show was cancelled, Carlson spent a year in the wilderness, honing his vision of what the future of Trumpism ...