Fox News' Chad Pergram shares details about Middletown, Ohio, the same city where Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, grew up.
'Like most small children, I learned my home address so that if I got lost, I could tell a grown-up where to take me.' Those are the opening lines to 'Hillbilly Elegy,' the memoir by Republican Vice Presidential nominee and Sen. JD Vance. It documents his rocky childhood growing up in Jackson, Kentucky, and Middletown, Ohio. Like Vance, I, too, learned my address for the same reasons. In fact, the geography is pretty similar. I was born in Middletown, just like Vance.
After rehearsal each night, many of us would drive down Briel Boulevard in Middletown to find something to eat. It’s doubtful that any thoroughfare in America could boast of such a dense concentration of fast-food joints and other eateries: Burger King, Long John Silvers, Friendly’s, Famous Recipe Fried Chicken, Rax Roast Beef, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, White Castle, Pizza Hut, Captain D’s. There was an Arby’s around the corner along with a local pizza place called Cassano’s.
They had dreams — dreams of a better life and better wages. Middletown certainly fueled my dreams. I suspect they did the same for JD Vance, too. And dreaming in Middletown — all of the Middletowns — is a very American story.
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