Once you finish reading that, I hear that this book Appalachian Reckoning offers a counter-perspective to that! https://www.wvpublic.org/post/appalachian-reckoning-writers-respond-jd-vance-s-hillbilly-elegy#stream/0

The appalachian region is very interesting because it has been kind of treated like a colony in a nation. But do let me know what you think of the book after reading it!