But both are in the same boat.
I'm from Virginia, and we take an especially dim view of West Virginians, without any respect to political affiliation.
Over that Civil War split, are we? :P
No. I do agree - West Virginia is a place where low-information voting tends to take place. It's very poor but let's not be mean.
West Virginia used to be Democratic; but now they've consistently voted against their economic interests two elections, potentially three.
Hopefully we can flood the area with knowledge that they're getting played when it comes to "elitism". Everyone who runs for President tends to be elite; I think some people are still wondering how the fuck George W. Bush ran as an outsider.
-.-.
It's very hard to forgive the people of this nation for making such a shitty decision to elect him not once, but twice.
But maybe they hard economic times will make them understand it.
I can't have any pity for them being unable to go deeper into debt when they won't even acknowledge the atrocities being committed overseas.
Sigh.
Catch-22.
And I'm getting very emo about it :P.
Heh. I think that's the core undercurrent of the division- the split in the civil war- but nobody thinks about it consciously anymore. Truly, though, West Virginia and Appalachia remind me of East Germany- the infrastructure sucks, the people are backwards, and unfortunately, the jokes about having a family tree with no branches or marrying and not having your last name change are very true in the boonies.
Now, that's changing, and I think we should recognize that. The northeastern peninsula of WV has become a suburb of DC- but it's not enough. Nobody's been able to help these people in the last hundred years or so. Unfortunately, I don't think it'll change anytime soon.
I thought we were just being "bluntly accurate"- just like Senator Clinton recently. Right? ;)
But West Virginia has been a solid Democratic state up until the 2000 election. They were one of the few states that Jimmy Carter carried in 1980 and Michael Dukakis in 1988. Kentucky has been more of a swing state, and usually votes for the winner.
