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Self Esteem

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12. WV isn't crazy when you realize it was a Democratic stronghold for years.

Tue Oct 22, 2024, 06:11 PM

Oct 2024

Even Dukakis won West Virginia in 1988.

But the shift with poor and working class whites away from the Democratic Party has kinda killed states like WV and Kentucky ever going Democratic at the presidential level again.

Conversely, the Democrats doing increasingly well with college-educated whites is exactly why states like Virginia are now solidly blue at the presidential level.

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