Best selling author, JD Vance, came to campus to discuss his book Hillbilly Elegy. He was able to further explain the motives behind the this election’s key demographic: the white, working class. As an individual from lower class Kentucky/ Ohio, Vance went to school at Yale Law and was able to experience different side of economic classes within society. Vance discussed the fact that even though he had moved beyond his original lower class, he was still not able to fully assimilate within a higher class. This was due to the fact that culture is sticky. It is hard for individuals to forget the culture of their original class. Therefore, Vance was often unable to relate to others at Yale. He had a different experience than they did. Those individuals
