Is it any wonder that West Virginia is the most Trump friendly state in America?

[louis c]

Of course, I'm from Massachusetts, which is ranked as the most educated state in America and the second most anti-Trump state. West Virginia is ranked 49th in being educated and is the most Trump friendly state in America. Probably a coincidence, right? I contend that no state in America has a worst record in voting in their own best interest than West Virginia. I know, I'll get some criticism here and I'm not saying every West Virginian is a dope, because I'm sure that's not the case. Hillary received at least 38% of the vote there and Senator Manchin is at least a Democrat. But yesterday, at the Trump rally, the people there shouted "Lock Her Up" about Hillary and "Drain the Swamp". To shout those inane slogans after yesterday's news a person has to be a moron.

Link;
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/the-10-most-and-least-educated-states-in-2018.html

[Mopar151]

1. They haven't heard yesterday's news.....

Explained in any sort of rational manner, ever!

[lpbk2713]

2. Some mouth breathers have to wait a while.

They have to wait until OxyRush or Faux Snooze tells the how they are supposed to think.

[jayschool2013]

3. Pat yourself on the back

but Nevada is 44th and New Mexico is 41st, and both voted for Clinton. The top 10 most educated states all voted for Clinton as well, though, and the bottom six states in educational attainment all voted for Hair Twitler, so there's some correlation there, no doubt.

However, deep red states like Utah (11th), Montana (16th), North Dakota (18th), Kansas (20th), Nebraska (21st), Iowa (24th) and Alaska (25th), rarely vote for Democrats and rank in the top half of educational attainment.

Wisconsin (19th) seems to have been particularly bamboozled by the flim-flam man, suppressed by their evil governor, or hacked egregiously by Russians.

Thanks for the chart. Interesting reading.

[phleshdef]

4. I grew up in WV and got the hell out ASAP. Its a ghost state and is losing more people all the time.

There is no opportunity in WV. Even if I wanted to go back (which I don't), the odds of finding a good paying job in my field are very slim.

[atreides1]

5. I blame it on the drugs

Remember, West Virginia is one of the states with high opioid abuse rate!!!

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

6. I want to be mad at them but sometimes its sad to think about what's happening there

Saddest part of all is the belief that Trump is going to be their savior. Like someone spending their last few bucks on a lottery ticket.

Drug firms shipped 20.8M pain pills to WV town with 2,900 people

Over the past decade, out-of-state drug companies shipped 20.8 million prescription painkillers to two pharmacies four blocks apart in a Southern West Virginia town with 2,900 people, according to a congressional committee investigating the opioid crisis.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee cited the massive shipments of hydrocodone and oxycodone — two powerful painkillers — to the town of Williamson, in Mingo County, amid the panel’s inquiry into the role of drug distributors in the opioid epidemic.

“These numbers are outrageous, and we will get to the bottom of how this destruction was able to be unleashed across West Virginia,” said committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., and ranking member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., in a joint statement.

The panel recently sent letters to regional drug wholesalers Miami-Luken and H.D. Smith, asking why the companies increased painkiller shipments and didn’t flag suspicious drug orders from pharmacies while overdose deaths were surging across West Virginia.

The letters outline high-volume shipments to pharmacies over consecutive days and huge spikes in pain pill numbers from year to year.

Between 2006 and 2016, drug wholesalers shipped 10.2 million hydrocodone pills and 10.6 million oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy and Hurley Drug in Williamson, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data obtained by the House Committee.

Springboro, Ohio-based Miami-Luken sold 6.4 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy from 2008 to 2015, the company disclosed to the panel. That’s more than half of all painkillers shipped to the pharmacy those years. In a single year (2008 to 2009), Miami-Luken’s shipments increased three-fold to the Mingo County town.

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/health/drug-firms-shipped-m-pain-pills-to-wv-town-with/article_ef04190c-1763-5a0c-a77a-7da0ff06455b.html

[FakeNoose]

7. West Virginia is a sad, sad place

I live in Pittsburgh and many of us can see West Virginia from our backyards. Well that's an exaggeration but not much of one.

The fact is that coal mining as they know the term in West Virginia, is no longer an industry. It used to be a dangerous, labor-intensive lifelong career because nobody else wanted their jobs, they had 'em for life and their children's lives. Not any more, it's big industry now and labor has been left behind. The companies that can afford to invest and upgrade their equipment are doing what used to be called "strip mining" but that term isn't allowed any more. Now it's called "surface mining" and these huge behemoth cranes and bulldozers churn up the landscape and do all the hard work. The fact that they're also ruining the environment doesn't seem to bother many people.

There are all kinds of political graft, lobbying and right-wing secret PAC stories too, but the main story is, these people will never get their mining jobs back. The younger ones that have figured it out already have moved away and made their lives elsewhere. The old, retired, sick and dying ones are the really sad people who keep believing every lie the politicians tell them. I'm not making fun of them, but I'm sorry that they're so gullible and they listen to Trump's ridiculous lies.

It's not just West Virginia, because a lot of coal mining jobs have been lost here in western Pennsylvania too. Also Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. The Democratic Party has a really wonderful opportunity if only they would reach out to these desperate people. Community development, education and job training would be such an awesome way to help them improve their situation. The GOP has done nothing but feed them BS lies.