Intro
Vance's cultural heritage.
What is Scots-Irish?
Mamaw
Who raised Vance?
Ronald Reagan
Who is the only Republican Papaw voted for?
Friends who were bad influences.
What is Mamaw's wrath or intolerance of bad influences? Or run them over with her car.
OSU Class Schedule
What offers the author a flexible schedule and course preferences?
Maintaining honor and values by resorting to violence.
What is hillbilly justice?
The author's homelife was ___________.
"Your generation will make its living with their minds, not their hands."
Who is Papaw
Future Investment
What is Vance's education?
Brain Drain
What is the decision that contributes to people not returning to their hometowns because of newly found better opportunities?
Fiercely valued
What is family?
Papaw's vice.
What is alchoholism?
Hard Work
How does this conflict with Middletown's reality?
Money
Yale University
What is the Ivy league law school that the author attends after his military career?
Vance's home.
What is Middletown, OH?
ARMCO/Kawasaki Steel
What contributed to the grandparents' move to OH?
Education
What is a way to succeed and support upward mobility? What is the message that the author received at home?
Limited experience and discipline.
What are factors the author did not feel he had preparation for life after graduation?
Aunt Wee
Who keeps the family together after Mamaw dies?
Outsiders were viewed as ________.
Who are people that the family cannot trust, people who are not their family.
American Dream
What were Mamaw and Papaw optimistic about?
Two varieties of people who make it.
Who are people that are 1) Lucky and 2) Meritocratic?
9/11
What made Vance's enlistment potentially dangerous?
Paylending Loans
What is financial support and disagreeing with the senate's view that they exploit poor people?