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Vance offers this description of Mamaw’s brothers—the Blanton men—as a way of showing both his admiration for the elders in his family and his ability to retrospectively recognize that they were, in many ways, deeply flawed. In turn this sheds light on the way the hillbilly identity works its way from generation to generation. Each family presumably has a set of elders who tells stories like the Blanton men told J.D., and each family also presumably chooses to see the good in these relatives rather than the bad. Family loyalty—a defining characteristic of the hillbilly identity—encourages hillbilly children like J.D…