 Dr. Matthew Wilson is a political science professor at Southern Methodist University. J.D. Vance resonates well with particularly blue-collar, Rust Belt folks. That's where he comes from. He's from Ohio. He grew up in poverty. Senator Vance went to Yale Law School and went on to become an investment banker. In 2016, he rose to national fame over his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. It told the story of how he was brought up in Appalachia and raised by his grandparents. It was later adapted into a movie.