 But if there were any exceptions, they were undoubtedly members of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal coalition. Growing up, Van spent his summer vacations visiting his great-grandmother and extended family in Jackson. He said, I always distinguished my address from my home, he wrote in Hillbilly Elegy. My address was where I spent most of my time with my mother and sister, wherever that might be, but my home never changed. My great-grandmother's house in the Holler in Jackson, Kentucky.