US Vice President JD Vance has shared a personal story about his family’s first reaction when they learned that his future wife Usha Vance is of Indian origin.Speaking on British entrepreneur Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast, Vance recalled that his mother asked a surprising question after learning of Usha’s Indian heritage: “Which tribe?”Vance said it was simply a cultural misunderstanding rather than bad intentions.Usha Vance, born Usha Bala Chilukuri, is the daughter of Indian immigrants who moved to the United States from the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. His family has deep roots in the Telugu speaking community and includes many educationists and teachers. He was born and raised in California and later graduated from Yale University and Yale Law School.At Yale Law School he met J.D. Vance. The two married in 2014 in an interfaith ceremony that included both Christian and Hindu traditions. Today, they have three children and are one of America’s biggest political couples.Over the years, Vance has often spoken about the positive impact Usha and her family have had on him. In his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, he described being impressed by the warmth of his Indian family life, which he said was very different from the upbringing he experienced in Ohio and Kentucky. He wrote that Usha’s family showed him a different model of family relationships and support.Usha has made a successful career. Before becoming the second lady, she worked as a lawyer and clerked for several senior judges, including Chief Justice John Roberts and then-federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh. She later worked at the law firm Munger, Toles & Olson before moving away from private practice as her husband’s political profile rose. Usha became the first Indian-American second lady of the United States and the first Hindu wife of a US Vice President.However, many MAGA nationalists and white supremacists argue that a brown, Hindu, and Indian second lady hinders Vance’s chances of becoming the next President of the United States in 2028.