Republican Vice Presidential candidate and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance has a hopeful message for Americans which is a far cry from what the Democrat Party has been saying.

President Joe Biden and his Democrats have continuously said that the United States is “an idea,” but the newly minted vice presidential nominee sees more than that, as he said on Wednesday at the Republican National Convention.

“One of the things that you hear people say sometimes is that America is an idea. And to be clear, America was indeed founded on brilliant ideas like the rule of law and religious liberty — things written into the fabric of our Constitution and our nation,” he said in his speech.

“But America is not just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is in short, a nation. Now it is part of that tradition, of course, that we welcome newcomers. But when we allow newcomers into our American family, we allow them on our terms. That’s the way we preserve the continuity of this project from 250 past to, hopefully, 250 years in the future,” the candidate said.

“Let me illustrate this with a story, if I may. I’m, of course, married to the daughter of South Asian immigrants to this country. Incredible people, people who genuinely have enriched this country in so many ways. Of course, I’m biased because I love my wife and her family but it’s true,” he said.

“Now when I proposed to my wife, we were in law school and I said, ‘Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in Eastern Kentucky.’ And I guess standing here tonight, it’s just gotten weirder and weirder, honey. But that’s what she was getting,” the Ohio senator said.

“Now that cemetery plot in Eastern Kentucky is near my family’s ancestral home. And like a lot of people, we came from the mountains of Appalachia into the factories of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Now that’s Kentucky coal country. It’s one of the ten poorest counties in the entire United States of America. They are very hardworking people, and they’re very good people. They’re the kind of people who would give you the shirt off their back, even if they can’t afford enough to eat,” he said.

“And our media calls them ‘privileged’ and looks down on them. But they love this country, not only because it’s a good idea, but because in their bones, they know that this is their home. And it will be their children’s home, and they would die fighting to protect it. That is the source of America’s greatness,” he said.