'Hillbilly phony': Appalachian tears back curtain on J.D. Vance's 'fictional' background

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is a "hillbilly phony" whose memoir of growing up in Middle America deflects the hard truths Republicans don't want to acknowledge about poverty and opportunity, wrote Caleb Miller for The Daily Beast.

Vance, now former President Donald Trump's running mate, grew up in Middletown, Ohio, left that life to be a venture capitalist in California, and made his fame writing his "Hillbilly Elegy" memoir that essentially concluded people in Appalachia are lazy, violent, and...