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JD Vance is going after higher ed despite benefiting from it
Without Yale Law School, JD Vance would be just another hillbilly. With it, Vance became a hillbilly with the academic contacts and credentials to write a book about his family roots in Appalachia and scarred childhood growing up in Ohio. “Hillbilly Elegy” …