Posted on 01/20/2025 2:11:33 PM PST by RandFan
By any measure, JD Vance, 40, has had a meteoric rise. In a matter of three years, he has gone from a longshot run for the Senate, to becoming the third youngest vice-president in American history.
At his side every step of the way has been his "spirit guide", as he calls her - wife, Usha.
At Yale Law School the pair were friends at first. Though they shared a reading group and social circle, their backgrounds could not have been more different.
Usha Vance, the 39-year-old daughter of Indian immigrants, grew up in the San Diego suburbs before attending Yale for both her undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Her husband was raised in Middleton, Ohio, born to a family with roots in the impoverished Appalachians of eastern Kentucky.
Their contrasting upbringings is what attracted them to each other, Charles Tyler, a Yale classmate and friend of the couple, told the BBC.
"They were always this match of very dissimilar people," he said.
In his bestselling 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, JD Vance recounted how his wife helped him adjust to life at the top law college.
"I have never felt out of place in my entire life," he wrote. "But I did at Yale."
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Indeed JD will! God Bless JD, Usha and their family!
I bought Hillbilly Elegy just to support him but haven’t read it LoL.
Some of FR’s creeps complained that JD was not a good fit for VP because his wife was Indian.
I don’t guess it did much good, but I called out their ignorant bigotry every time I saw it.
Usha’s hawt.
Well said.
It is frustrating to see prejudice and bigotry on Free Republic . Rejection of someone because his wife is of Indian ancestry is frustrating to see.
Well said. Bigotry and prejudice does not comport with our conservative values on Free Republic. And in fact, there are conservatives of various ethnicities, and we should be happy to have their support.
She has such a beautiful smile and she couldn’t stop smiling during the inauguration ceremony.
I love our Second Lady.💕
He grew up in Middletown, Ohio, not Middleton.
Exception to Billy Klinton’s wife. (/S)
Thanks to both of you.
As Vance was taking the oath of office, I can imagine his grandma watching from Heaven, bragging to the other angels...”that’s my grandson, that’s my grandson!!”
MiddleTOWN!
Actually, based on Vance’ speech at the convention, she was saying, “That’s my f***ing grandson!”
I personally am delighted that there is a San Diegan as Second Lady. High time that some respect should be paid to the lower left-hand corner of the country.
Bookmark
“Thanks to both of you.”
Ditto... I am part of that club the bigots and racists hate too. It makes me sick because many claim to be compassionate Christians. It sometimes makes me wonder if they are plants trying to make the FR, Christians, and Conservatives look bad...
I never saw anyone on FR complain about Vance having an Indian wife. The only complaints I ever saw were the cat people.
I think you asked the wrong person. I wasn’t the one who claimed that. But from what I have witnessed around here about other races including my own I do not doubt it one bit.
cat people????
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