Connection to Appalachia...

I was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. However, my family moved here in 1992, a few years before I was born, for the university, so I have very little familial or personal connections to Appalachia.
I was told to go over my general family background anyway, so here goes. My parents are both from Los Angeles, California. They met studying at UCLA. My mother was born in Prague in what was then Czechoslovakia, and fled the country to America in 1968, when she was 10 years old. (They left because of the end of Prague Spring, no time to explain it here, look it up if you're curious.) My father's parents were both descended from Eastern European Jews, his mother from Polish Jews and his father from Hungarian Jews. Because my Dad is a professor, he's had to move to get jobs, first to Oklahoma for a short time where my brother was born, then to West Virginia University, where he still works. And here I am.
-E.