J.D. Vance: Hillbilly for Congress

Peter Breen | Tuesday, October 4, 2022

I’ve always identified as a Democrat. Maybe it’s because of my mother. Maybe it’s because I was raised to love my progressive hometown suburb: Shaker Heights, Ohio. Maybe it’s because I just like the color blue. Therefore, when I set out to read J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2016 memoir of the now Republican