Well it is a lot more inclusive considering Appalachian Americans come in all colors and always have. Even Middlesboro, KY which has a Jewish cemetery as well as Catholic, Native American, and other 'mixed' roots that stretch back to its very founding and later was racist as all get out back in the day integrated their hospital due to a coal mining accident. The miners came out black after a collapse and all of them were transported to the 'white' hospital. When it was eventually discovered that one of the patients was black his fellow miners made it clear their would be hell to pay if he were transferred and stopped it. It's been integrated ever since.
And that's not accounting for the black and part black Melungeons in E. TN who managed to gain an exception to Jim Crow laws allowing them to vote and have all the rights of 'white' folks or the long history of black Appalachians in places like Claiborne County. E. TN was considered the freest place in the entire Union to speak of abolition and had the very first paper dedicated to it (that includes all of the US and did so BEFORE the North). It's always been different.
But back to Malone... Appies gonna App. We love our football no matter our color.