You're right Taxchick - similar to how we've been forced by circumstances to accept the moniker 'deplorable'...
Acceptance and pride in the term 'deplorable' saves our sense of dignity and removes a weapon liberal elites would use against us... Still, on some levels those terms are uncomfortable...
Deplorable, “bitter clinger,” “right-wing internet crazies,” or whatever it was ... if you say, “Okay, fine, that’s what I am,” you dismiss the attempt to dismiss you. I’ve been called a “breeder” and a “womb-whore.” Okay, fine. The future looks like me, not like you. (General “you,” there, not you personally.)
If you check out “Hillbilly Elegy” from the library and don’t like it, you haven’t lost much. Some posters above said it was badly written, but I thought it was perfectly competent.