But I’ve read plenty of what Vance has to say about mountain people like me. My name is Junior Walk, and I am a hillbilly. My parents are hillbillies, and their parents are hillbillies.

Movies also played a role in portraying so-called hillbillies, with some depicted as unintelligent and unsophisticated and others pleasant and charming. Hundreds of Southern mountain films ...

After all, the narrative of the lazy hillbilly has existed for as long as rich folks outside of Appalachia needed an explanation for mountain poverty that doesn’t include blaming themselves.

JD Vance joked about Diet Mountain Dew being racist at his 1st solo rally since becoming Trump's VP. But the Ohio senator used to take the issue more seriously. In "Hillbilly Elegy," he even wrote ...

Vance describes “Hillbilly Elegy” as “a fully accurate ... “It’s hard for people who aren’t from here to understand. There’s a mountain chivalry where you might assault me today ...

When Appalachians object to a 2009 ABC News segment on a supposed epidemic of “Mountain Dew mouth” in the region’s children, Vance criticizes them. Hillbillies, he argues, “tend to ...

"Mountain Justice" pits a hillbilly father against his daughter who, Nugent wrote, “picked up her new-fangled notions at a nurses' training school.” The daughter is trying to better herself ...

But I’ve read plenty of what Vance has to say about mountain people like me. My name is Junior Walk, and I am a hillbilly. My parents are hillbillies, and their parents are hillbillies. We hail from ...

The “hillbilly” name set the new white migrants apart from the other residents who shared their skin color. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt smiles in the crowd as mountain musicians play in ...