 A celebration of what America once was, and with God's grace, what it will soon be again. Vance built his speech around his own Appalachian roots, introduced his mother, a former drug addict, to the crowd, and vowed to help families like the one he grew up in. We're going to build factories again, put people to work making real products for American families, made with the hands of American workers. His speech was a hit on the convention floor.