Official Genealogy Report Explodes Vance's 'Scot-Irish Hillbilly" Claim

JD Vance's Claim Of Irish Roots Hits Brick Wall

As one Twitter user put it, "Obama being ~more~ Irish than Vance is hilarious." Yes, it would be. And maybe Vance does have Scotch-Irish ancestry, as he claims. But researchers going through extensive records back to the mid-1600s just couldn't find any evidence of that. Source: The Times JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” but a trawl of genealogy records has found no evidence linking the US vice-p…

Official Genealogy Report Explodes Vance's 'Scot-Irish Hillbilly" Claim

A “trawl of genealogy records” has called into question Vice President JD Vance’s self-declared status as a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart,” the New York Times reports.Vance, in his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, declared, “To understand me, you must understand that I am a Scots-Irish ­hillbilly at heart.”But, according to a report commissioned by a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) minister, Vance lacks “‘a conclusive family link’ to Northern Irel…