J. D. Vance claims to have been born into poverty & will definitely paint himself as being the grassroots type. Yet in his book "Hillbilly Elegy" he mocks those who used welfare & other assistance. My father was conservative, but also a survivor
of the Great Depression. He said: "I knew people
who were too proud to accept help. Those were the
ones who didn't make it. No man is an island."