Moriah Cox is an Appalachian woman, who was born, raised, and educated in East Tennessee. She graduated from college, to find the world less full of opportunity than she was told; and now organizes on behalf of herself and her people.
Conveniently, Vance blames my people for their struggles and paints them as lazy while blaming his circumstances on his mother and her battle with addiction. He seems to believe that all his traumas should be attributed to a culture that is not even his.