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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The war on coal.[/quote]

They need to diversify, figure out some other way to create jobs, not just lament days gone by when coal was king.  And the irony is that they mostly vote Republican, known for cutting welfare.[/quote]

For a looooooong time, Democrats ran the state. Joe Manchin, Earl Ray Tomblin, Jay Rockefeller aren't exactly Repubs, even though 2 of them sort of lean that way.[/quote]

But they usually vote  Republican for President, and it's the Federal gov't that doles out a large chunk of the welfare.[/quote]
WV has been a reliably Democrat state for decades. WV was one of only a handful of states captured by Jimmy Carter in 1980. They are that loyal to the Dem party. [/quote]

Their state Democrat politicians are not like your standard Democrats.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/in-west-virginia-coal-means-more-party-less/?_r=0

"The more fundamental answer, however, is that Democratic candidates in West Virginia often bear little resemblance to national Democrats. State Democrats tend to be more conservative on a range of issues. Moreover, they emphasize their independence from the national party.. West Virginia is 94 percent white and rural. There just aren’t that many liberal or progressive voters in West Virginia. In 2008, 48 percent of voters were Democrats, but just 18 percent of voters described themselves as liberal, according to exit polls."[/quote]

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