I just finished reading "Hillbilly Elegy".

[llmart]

13. That's sort of how I felt.

However, after I finished the book I realized that he really didn't have any solutions or suggestions for solutions. He also made a lot of broad-brush statements without backing them up with facts and statistics. If I remember correctly, there was one point where he said, "a large minority of people live like that" (maybe with regards to living on charity and not trying to get a job). What the heck is a large minority? Isn't that an oxymoron?

I also cringed at the use of the term "hillbillies". I think it has a derogatory connotation and I'll bet most of the group he was examining would take great offense by being called that.

My childhood had many similarities but no one would ever call my family "hillbillies". We didn't hail from Kentucky or W. Virginia. Our roots ran deep in northeast Ohio.