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WVa is a classic case of Dems being out of touch and ignoring the warning signs for too long. They have always been hillbillies and that is fundamentally the reason why they broke off from the genteel planter elites in the rest of Virginia*, because let's be honest none of them were ready to have free blacks as neighbors, or for them to marry their daughters - it was always about money. Then coal propelled them through the Industrial Revolution and most of the 20th century, so they made bank on that for decades. However the blue collar attitude always remained and thus why the labor movement was strong there, until Dems got too fat and happy and stopped paying anything more than lip service to labor and giving a voice to the working class. Now they're boned economically because their pols (R & D) never properly prepared them for the day when coal was no longer a major economic driver and that day has come much faster than they thought it would.
*fed up with privileged rich folk calling them dumb hicks and telling them what is best for them, whilst not paying their fair share of taxes on massive profits to build & maintain the rest of the state's core infrastructure - sound familiar?
*fed up with privileged rich folk calling them dumb hicks and telling them what is best for them, whilst not paying their fair share of taxes on massive profits to build & maintain the rest of the state's core infrastructure - sound familiar?
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