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    10 months ago

    West Virginia used to be blue back when the democrats would give a fig leaf to organized labor

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      10 months ago

      Even my gen-x peers who lived through that shift don’t understand that it’s not the W. Virginians who abandoned the Democrats, but the Democrats who abandoned the W. Virginians. Instead my peers label them ungrateful deplorables.