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Hillbilly Elegy

a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Jul 14, 2017StarGladiator rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I agree with sigridmac's comments below: the author's opinions aren't factually correct. The largest demographic which elected Trump was non-black women [white, Hispanic, Jewish, Arab, Near Eastern, et cetera], and the second largest group was well-to-do, high SES males of white, Hispanic, black, and other categories. Many sat out this election, and who can blame them, faced with the choice of Wall Street stooge Trump or Wall Street stooge Clinton? Historically, the Scotch-Irish settled in Appalachia, and they were morally reviled by many Scots and Irish for predictable reasons: the Scotch-Irish were the Scots who, unlike the ancestors on my Scottish side, were kicked off their lands and presented with the option of taking lands from the Irish - - given to them by the Brits, so the British government could colonize and destabilize Ireland [my ancestors and others turned this down, naturally, and came to America after the Brits stole their land].