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Claims About JD Vance’s Middle-Class Upbringing in Suburban Ohio Are Partly True, Partly False

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Claims About JD Vance’s Middle-Class Upbringing in Suburban Ohio Are Partly True, Partly False

Claim:

U.S. Sen. and *********** vice presidential candidate JD Vance grew up in suburban Ohio in a large house, with a middle-class family, and he took golf lessons.

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Rating: Mixture

What’s True:

Vance did not grow up in Appalachia, but in suburban Ohio, in a house in a neighborhood considered “middle class” at the time he was growing up. He took golf lessons and also went to Yale for law school.

 

What’s False:

His father left when he was still a toddler, his mother struggled with substance ****** and he was raised by his grandparents. And while he grew up in Middletown, Ohio, his grandparents had moved there from Appalachia, like many other families in Middletown, and he spent summers in Jackson, Kentucky, located in the Appalachian Mountains. He attended Ohio State University on the U.S. Marine Corps tuition assistance program, and then Yale’s law school on a near-full scholarship.

 

What’s Undetermined:

We could not confirm his family’s income in 2024 dollars, nor who paid for his golf lessons.

 

In July 2024, rumors

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that JD Vance, the running mate of former U.S. President Donald Trump, had not grown up, as he said, in rural Appalachia, but in suburban Ohio, in a middle -class family who lived in a large house (
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Vance grew up in a 4 bedroom suburban home in Ohio, in a family that earned a little over $175k/year in today’s dollars and paid for his golf lessons. He eventually overcome this tragic upbringing to attend Yale Law School.

Neither poor, rural, nor Appalachian. Just a grifter.

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— James M. Thomas (JT)

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Vance grew up in a 4 bedroom suburban home in Ohio, in a family that earned a little over $175k/year in today’s dollars and paid for his golf lessons. He eventually overcome this tragic upbringing to attend Yale Law School.

Neither poor, rural, nor Appalachian. Just a grifter.

The claim appeared

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, with the same phrasing about his family’s income and house and his golf lessons, accumulating hundreds of thousands of views.

But while the posters were correct in pointing out that Vance grew up in suburban Ohio, not in Appalachia, the rest was false. Therefore, we have rated this claim a “Mixture” of truth and falsehoods.

What We Know

Vance did grow up in Middletown, Ohio, north of Cincinnati. That area is not Appalachia, though it is a few hours away in a car. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vance’s family was one of many in Middletown that

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to find work in the steel industry. Also, the family spent summers in Jackson, Kentucky, which is located in the Appalachian Mountains.

In 2022,

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in Middletown lived under the ******** threshold, much higher than Ohio’s average of
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. This compared with a ******** rate of 12.6% in 2000. Middletown is part of the Rust Belt, and like many steel-producing towns, its industry was
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and relocations, causing rises in unemployment and ********.

Vance was born in 1984

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. When he was very young, his father moved away, and his parents divorced when he was 6. Following that, his mother struggled with addiction and mental-health issues, and she reportedly hurt him physically. For this reason, the authorities entrusted Vance to his grandparents.

According to Vance’s cousin

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Vance’s book “Hillbilly Elegy” accurately recounted their family life when they were growing up. She said the term “hillbilly” came from their grandmother, affectionately known as “Mamaw,” who described them as “************” or “hill people.”

As for the size of the home in which he grew up, Realtor.com reported that it boasted three bedrooms, not four, and 2,000 square feet of living space. It was built in 1900. The site explained that at the time he was growing up, it was considered “middle class.” Meanwhile, we could not verify the exact income of his family at the time. We should note that a household’s level of income does not say anything about the stability of family life.

It does appear, however, that Vance

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, spurred on by his grandmother, who thought golf was “where rich people do business,” according to Golf Digest magazine. It is not clear who paid for the golf lessons, though Vance said a successful uncle introduced him to the game, and he later worked as a cart boy at the Shaker Run Golf Club in Lebanon, Ohio.

Vance joined the U.S. Marine Corps after high school, from 2003 to 2007. He then attended Ohio State University on the

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of the Marines, and graduated summa **** laude in 2009. He then applied to Yale University for law school, and received a nearly full-ride scholarship, graduating in 2013.

Sources:

‘All About J.D. Vance’s Parents, Mom Beverly Vance and Dad Donald Bowman’. Peoplemag,

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. Accessed 22 July 2024.'”Hillbilly Elegy”: How the Author, “a Hillbilly at Heart,” Found Golf’. Golf Digest, Accessed 22 July 2024.

‘”Hillbilly Elegy” Is My Family’s Story. I’m Happy It Shared My Mamaw with the World.’ Dayton-Daily-News,

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. Accessed 22 July 2024.

J.D. Vance | Biography, Politics, Family, & Hillbilly Elegy | Britannica. 22 July 2024,

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LaFraniere, Sharon. ‘Absent a Father Figure, J.D. Vance Found Notable Mentors’. The New York Times, 17 July 2024. NYTimes.com,

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Mandell, Lisa Johnson. ‘VP Pick J.D. Vance Has an Impressive Real Estate Portfolio: From Hillbilly Elegy to High-End Homes’. Real Estate News & Insights | Realtor.Com®, 18 July 2024,




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