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Who Counts as a Hillbilly—And Who Gets to Decide?

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This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. At the close of his RNC speech accepting his party’s nomination for vice president in July, then-Senator J. D. Vance lingered on the specific patch of earth where he hoped he would one day be buried. “Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law-school debt and a cemetery plot on a mounta…

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Who Counts as a Hillbilly—And Who Gets to Decide?

Appalachia exists as much in myth as in literal geography.

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