Two things here:
1. Lots of folks claim ancestry they either don’t have or can’t prove (often bc elders told them so and they never questioned it).
2. Being Scotch-Irish is a whole thing (I would know), so Vance not being able to prove it is *also* a whole thing. https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/jd-vance-scots-irish-family-history-682pjm5j5
1. Lots of folks claim ancestry they either don’t have or can’t prove (often bc elders told them so and they never questioned it).
2. Being Scotch-Irish is a whole thing (I would know), so Vance not being able to prove it is *also* a whole thing. https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/jd-vance-scots-irish-family-history-682pjm5j5
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And Vance’s whole Hillbilly Elegy personal narrative was rooted in the Scotch-Irish, Appalachian experience.
So him not being able to prove it is…wild.
But, again, this is a whole political identity thing for Vance, so it’s…not nothing.
Would Vance appreciate mere hard-working Irish grands?