{"id":592,"date":"2026-06-25T11:09:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:09:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:09:45","slug":"the-white-working-class-myth-that-made-jd-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"The white working-class myth that made JD Vance"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><span>Vice President JD Vance wants to be Donald Trump\u2019s successor. As part of that quest, he has written the obligatory memoir and has embarked on a media tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=590\">On the eve of America 250, SCOTUS may redefine who belongs here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>In his new book, \u201cCommunion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,\u201d Vance reflects on the culture wars, a need for moral renewal in America and his conversion to a conservative form of Catholicism. Predictably, he does not critically engage with how he can serve a wicked and ungodly president whose personal behavior and politics violate almost every core tenet of his professed Christian values. As Christian Paz <\/span><span>detailed at Vox<\/span><span>, \u201cIn the course of explaining how he came to serve God, he also shows how easy, if not necessary in modern America, it is for him \u2014 and for them \u2014 to subordinate that faith to politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHillbilly Elegy,\u201d Vance\u2019s first book, which follows his journey from poverty to college, the Marines in Iraq, Yale Law School and success as an entrepreneur and beyond, was a cultural phenomenon. The memoir sold millions of copies, was published in dozens of languages and was adapted into a movie directed by Ron Howard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While \u201cHillbilly Elegy\u201d was celebrated as a compelling story about the American Dream, the book was <\/span><span>widely criticized<\/span><span> for its stereotypical depictions of Appalachia, and for minimizing the role that structures and institutions such as the opioid crisis and deindustrialization play in poverty and social inequality.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Thiel\u2019s intervention on behalf of Vance serves as a reminder that the vice president did not pull himself up alone by his bootstraps; he had a lot of help and luck along the way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The years since the publication of \u201cHillbilly Elegy\u201d demonstrated that Vance is, at his heart, an opportunist and a chameleon. Before entering politics, he publicly and privately condemned Trump, describing him as <\/span><span>\u201cAmerica\u2019s Hitler\u201d<\/span><span> and an \u201cidiot.\u201d Venture capitalist and conservative activist<\/span> <span>Peter Thiel <\/span><span>served as his mentor<\/span><span>, funding his career in finance\u00a0 and underwriting Vance\u2019s own business. When Vance ran for the Senate in 2022, Thiel was his largest donor, contributing approximately $15 million to his campaign. Thiel\u2019s intervention on behalf of Vance serves as a reminder that the vice president did not pull himself up alone by his bootstraps; he had a lot of help and luck along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both \u201cCommunion\u201d and \u201cHillbilly Elegy\u201d largely overlook this part of Vance\u2019s origin story. The books are <\/span><span>best understood<\/span><span> as products that <\/span><span>serve Vance\u2019s political brand<\/span><span> as a working-class hero and MAGA royalty rather than functioning as introspective memoirs. Nonetheless, Vance is already attempting to\u00a0 use his identity as a working-class champion to win the 2028 Republican nomination \u2014\u00a0and ultimately, the presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an <\/span><span>interview<\/span><span> on Saturday with Fox News about the 2024 election, Vance talked about his \u201cpatriotic Christian blue-collar Democratic parents\u201d and how \u201cthey don\u2019t have a place in that party anymore.\u201d He also attacked socialists like New York City Mayor <\/span><span>Zohran Mamdani,<\/span><span> and connected them to Trump\u2019s mass deportations: \u201cInteresting when socialists tell me that they really stand up for working people, and they want to protect working people, but they want to abolish ICE.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This example reflects a much larger strategy. In his interviews, speeches, books and discussions of the economy, Vance consistently returns to his working-class roots. But the vice president\u2019s <\/span><span>working-class authenticity<\/span><span> is <\/span><span>largely performative<\/span><span>: it is not used for solidarity, or in service to social democracy. Instead, it is deployed as a weapon and cover for an administration and political party that is actively hurting working-class Americans and the country as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To give more public money to the richest Americans and corporations, the Trump administration and the GOP have gutted the social safety net by taking away food and housing assistance for poor and vulnerable Americans, including children and the elderly; slashed funding for healthcare; limited access to higher education; and targeted a range of programs that help to make intergenerational, upward social mobility possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Appeals to so-called working class identity and authenticity do not legitimate the Trump\u2019s administration\u2019s cruel and authoritarian policies such as mass deportations, creating a <\/span><span>nationwide system of detention centers<\/span><span>, ending humanitarian aid programs around the world, militant nationalism and a war against Iran, naked corruption, Orwellian attacks on the truth and reality, and the systematic undermining of the country\u2019s democracy, civil society and the rule of law.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Vance\u2019s working-class authenticity politics point to a much larger question: in this era of righteous populist rage at the elites and a broken economy and society: What does it mean to be working class?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In American politics \u2014 especially in the post-Civil Rights Movement era \u2014 the term \u201cworking class\u201d (or \u201cblue collar\u201d) is presented as being race and gender neutral when it is usually a stand-in for white conservative and right-leaning men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In reality, there are tens of millions of working-class Black and brown people. <\/span><span>Approximately 46%<\/span><span> of the U.S. working class are women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a group, working-class Americans <\/span><span>support progressive policies<\/span><span>. Besides being pro-union, they are in favor of expanding the social safety net, investing in infrastructure, and increasing taxes on the rich and corporations to create a fairer economy and more opportunity for all Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=588\">Cornyn, Crockett remain top skeptics of their party\u2019s Senate nominees after primary losses<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When Vance or Trump talk about \u201cworking class\u201d or \u201chard-working Americans,\u201d they are making thinly coded appeals to aggrieved white men and women who feel they have \u201clost their country\u201d to Black and brown people, immigrants and others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>When Vance or Trump talk about \u201cworking class\u201d or \u201chard-working Americans,\u201d they are making thinly coded appeals to aggrieved white men and women who feel they have \u201clost their country\u201d to Black and brown people, immigrants and others who have \u201ccut ahead in line.\u201d To that point, research has repeatedly shown that it is not economic anxiety but racism, nativism and white racial resentment that drives support for Trumpism, MAGA and today\u2019s Republican Party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When Vance spreads racist conspiracy theories that Black Haitian migrants are <\/span><span>stealing and eating people\u2019s dogs<\/span><span> and other pets in Springfield, Ohio, or that <\/span><span>Black Somalis<\/span><span> are engaging in <\/span><span>massive welfare fraud<\/span><span> in Minneapolis, he is channeling white working-class resentment and paranoia. The message is that \u201cother people\u201d \u2014 the undeserving takers and welfare queens \u2014 are stealing opportunities and resources away from hard-working white people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2024, I <\/span><span>interviewed sociologist Arlie Hochschild<\/span><span> about her book \u201cStolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right\u201d and what she learned about why white working-class and poor people in Appalachia found Trump and MAGA so appealing. Her explanation was relatively straightforward: Trump is a bully, and these \u201cleft behind\u201d and \u201cforgotten\u201d white Americans want someone to be a bully for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPeople on the left are aghast and decry the bully and yell about how he or she is a bad person,\u201d Hochschild told me. \u201cThe Trump voters and other people on the right set all that aside because Trump is a charismatic leader defending them, their \u2018good bully.\u2019 That\u2019s how one of many explained things to me, and others agreed with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But when I asked her about Vance and his \u2018Hillbilly Elegy\u201d narrative, she noted that the people she spoke to in Pikeville, Kentucky, did not find Vance very compelling. \u201cOne Trump voter told me, \u2018Vance is a drag on our ticket,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cOthers accepted Vance but don\u2019t like him, mainly because his book criticizes hillbillies for their \u2018bad choices\u2019 and flawed culture and celebrates his own desperate escape out of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hochschild emphasized Vance\u2019s hypocrisy and callousness, particularly when it comes to women and reproduction. As Trump\u2019s running mate, Vance famously said that women who haven\u2019t had babies run the risk of becoming \u201c<\/span><span>childless cat ladies<\/span><span>.\u201d In his worldview, Hochschild explained, women who haven\u2019t had children \u201cwon\u2019t grow up to care about America\u2019s future [but] he says nothing about public dollars for drug recovery, job retraining or other social services.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>History shows that supporting policies that hurt his own white working class and other white voters, will not be a large problem for Vance. For decades \u2014 and centuries \u2014 many white Americans have consistently chosen racism instead of working together with Black and brown people across the color line to advance common material goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In his 1935 book \u201cBlack Reconstruction,\u201d W.E.B. Du Bois explained this as \u201cthe psychological wages of Whiteness.\u201d Some 90 years later, political scientist <\/span><span>Heather McGhee describes<\/span><span> this dynamic as \u201cdrained-pool politics,\u201d where White America has historically denied Black and brown Americans equal access to resources \u2014 even if it means hurting them and their futures too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A recent <\/span><span>Verasight poll<\/span><span> shows that the vice president is supported by 37% of Republican and right-leaning voters, which puts him far ahead of other potential GOP primary candidates such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio (16%) and Donald Trump Jr. (13%). This huge gap in support is likely a function of name recognition because of his role as vice president. Vance is still benefitting from \u201cHillbilly Elegy\u201d as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But Trump is the kingmaker. He will play a significant role in deciding who will continue the MAGA legacy as his heir. The president is a sui generis figure in American history. He cannot be replicated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Vance is highly intelligent, has a unique personal story, and can mine white racial resentment and grievance mongering to great effect. But he will need much more of Trump\u2019s meanness and love of being a political pugilist to win over the MAGA faithful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of the recurring themes in focus groups and polling is that although <\/span><span>non-MAGA Republicans<\/span><span> admire Trump\u2019s aggressiveness and view him as a \u201cfighter,\u201d they want his successor to be more \u201crespectable\u201d and \u201cpolished.\u201d Whether JD Vance can satisfy their desire while still appearing authentic to the MAGA base will largely determine whether he becomes a historical footnote \u2014 another vice president who never reached the presidency \u2014 or secures a place of his own in the Oval Office. He cannot be \u201cTrump-lite\u201d or an imposter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=585\">\u201cHe really doesn\u2019t care\u201d: Warren slams Trump\u2019s decision to hold up affordable housing bill<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;Hillbilly Elegy&#8221; to &#8220;Communion,&#8221; Vance&#8217;s narrative is about power, not solidarity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[880,4,5,881,42,715,882],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-2028-presidential-election","tag-commentary","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillbilly-elegy","tag-jd-vance","tag-white-working-class","tag-working-class"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The white working-class myth that made JD Vance - Relocation Across America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=592\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The white working-class myth that made JD Vance - Relocation Across America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From &quot;Hillbilly Elegy&quot; 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DECEMBER 21: Vice President JD Vance speaks on the final day of Turning Point USA's annual AmericaFest conference at the Phoenix Convention Center on December 21, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona. Vance spoke about preparing for the next election, and fighting against the left on culture war issues. 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