My parents were from Nebraska but moved to California. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, but we occasionally visited their relatives in Nebraska. By Vance’s lights, that makes me a Nebraskan.
My parents were from Nebraska but moved to California. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, but we occasionally visited their relatives in Nebraska. By Vance’s lights, that makes me a Nebraskan.
I hate being fair to JD of all people, but we don't draw such distinctions on various hyphenated Americans. If a person is born of Greek parents who move to America and lived around other Greeks and occasionally visited family in Greece, we wouldn't think it odd that they'd identify strongly with Greek heritage.
I grew up in a neighborhood that was mixed, Italian, Irish, Polish, German, Greek, etc. Many Families were the generation that immigrated, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd generation in the same household. So yeah, I can understand your point exactly. Me, being of Italian and Irish decent, when the Irish guys and the Italian guys got into a fight, I'd go easy on myself! One of the best parts of growing up there, was that there was always an open invitation to stay for dinner. Got to enjoy authentic Polish, German, Italian, Greek, and Irish food. What a wonderful place to grow up. Sadly with gentrification, that neighborhood no longer exists.
It isn't that far, and how far is Chinatown in any American city from China?
There was quite a migration from Appalachia north years and years ago. The guy's roots are in the hoots and hollars, and so what? Now if he wants to exploit that and profit from it, it is up to the others who identify that way to decide how they feel about it, but I'm in no position to say that he isn't a hillbilly.
What I can definitively say is that he seems to be a rank opportunist willing to say one thing one day and the opposite the next to serve his ambition. However, I won't hold that against all hillbillies.
My parents were from Nebraska but moved to California. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, but we occasionally visited their relatives in Nebraska. By Vance’s lights, that makes me a Nebraskan.
I hate being fair to JD of all people, but we don't draw such distinctions on various hyphenated Americans. If a person is born of Greek parents who move to America and lived around other Greeks and occasionally visited family in Greece, we wouldn't think it odd that they'd identify strongly with Greek heritage.
I grew up in a neighborhood that was mixed, Italian, Irish, Polish, German, Greek, etc. Many Families were the generation that immigrated, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd generation in the same household. So yeah, I can understand your point exactly. Me, being of Italian and Irish decent, when the Irish guys and the Italian guys got into a fight, I'd go easy on myself! One of the best parts of growing up there, was that there was always an open invitation to stay for dinner. Got to enjoy authentic Polish, German, Italian, Greek, and Irish food. What a wonderful place to grow up. Sadly with gentrification, that neighborhood no longer exists.
But Vance grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a steel town north of Cincinnati, that is nowhere near Appalachia.
It isn't that far, and how far is Chinatown in any American city from China?
There was quite a migration from Appalachia north years and years ago. The guy's roots are in the hoots and hollars, and so what? Now if he wants to exploit that and profit from it, it is up to the others who identify that way to decide how they feel about it, but I'm in no position to say that he isn't a hillbilly.
What I can definitively say is that he seems to be a rank opportunist willing to say one thing one day and the opposite the next to serve his ambition. However, I won't hold that against all hillbillies.
Hillbillies are a lot of things. Phony isn't one of them. He's a phony. Ashamed of his roots. Sad. Also unattractive.
"Cornhusker Elegy"??