The Stagnating Hillbilly Culture

“Grand mama cried when she waved goodbye, never heard such a lonesome sound,Pretty soon the dirt road turned into blacktop, Detroit City bound…” Hillbilly Highway, Steve Earle Hillbilly Elegy-A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance has captured national attention as a first-person view of the white (Scots-Irish) working and barely-working poor.…