J.D. Vance’s hometown, Middletown, Ohio, if you want to really understand…(from Wikipedia)
Middletown studies were sociological case studies of the white residents of the city of Muncie in Indiana initially conducted by Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, husband-and-wife sociologists. The Lynds’ findings were detailed in Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, published in 1929, and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts, published in 1937. They wrote in their first book:
The city will be called Middletown. A community as small as thirty-odd thousand … [in which] the field staff was enabled to concentrate on cultural change … the interplay of a relatively constant … American stock and its changing environment.[1]
The word middletown was meant to suggest the average or typical American small city. While there are many places in the U.S. actually named Middletown, the Lynds were interested in an idealized conceptual American type, and concealed the identity of the city by referring to it by this term.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. NPR has also interview residents of J.D. Vance’s hometown, Middletown, Ohio.
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