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19. You believe all voters think and vote rationally?

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Mon Nov 24, 2025, 07:50 PM

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Trump won WV with about 80 percent of the vote. Do you believe a Trump presidency is "to their benefit?"

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Devastating population decline predicted in deep red state by 2040 as counties lose up to a third of residents [View all] edbermac Sunday OP

But they still get 2 senators, the same as California BlueWaveNeverEnd Sunday #1

Welp, we can thank George Washington for that n/t Polybius Sunday #17

It was part of the Connecticut compromise fujiyamasan Tuesday #48

As a group Democrats and owners of companies should start looking to move people and jobs there into these red states oldmanlynn Tuesday #54

The Daily Mail ... that tracks. What's "devastating"?? RandomNumbers Sunday #2

Not when human society has adapted to certain levels of population density. EdmondDantes_ Sunday #6

The able move away. It's always the vulnerable left behind to suffer the worst Maru Kitteh Tuesday #44

Central, ME...relatively rural and getting rural-er. OAITW r.2.0 Tuesday #57

The msm has a bullshit narrative jfz9580m Tuesday #35

Hillary tried to tell them. Nt BootinUp Sunday #3

and Kamala..... Jack Valentino Tuesday #32

That's a difficult part of the country Melon Sunday #4

It's a really stupid part of the country Mysterian Sunday #5

Perhaps because there's the notion that we consider them stupid EdmondDantes_ Sunday #7

Lip service meaning they hate the same people. Nt BootinUp Sunday #8

Yeah, I'm sure they had their feelings hurt by mean liberals Mysterian Sunday #10

I have friends there. It can be beautiful country. Melon Sunday #11

I grew up there and recently lived there for 20 years Mysterian Sunday #14

I'm not hurting anyone's feeling. People switch parties when it's to their benefit. Not when they are insulted. Melon Sunday #18

You believe all voters think and vote rationally? Mysterian Monday #19

The point of oligarch politics is PRECISELY to get people to vote against their own best interest. usonian Tuesday #56

Running in Huntington underpants Monday #26

Westmoreland has a lot of sidewalks exboyfil Tuesday #27

My mom's family grew up in Westmoreland Tanuki Tuesday #42

My dad Vinson class of 1960 exboyfil Tuesday #47

Check your inbox! 🙂 Tanuki Tuesday #49

"Learn to Code" is what everyone else has been told JI7 Tuesday #34

It was a tone deaf remark directed specifically at the miners in the region. Melon Wednesday #60

The same message has been directed at everyone else for years JI7 Wednesday #62

"Learn to Code" is a bait-and-switch anyway. RandomNumbers Wednesday #63

Nothing in the Democratic Party Platform implies that they're stupid. Mariana Sunday #12

There is something about rural poverty that makes people bigots. ananda Sunday #13

Perhaps you noticed that the post I was replying to literally called them stupid EdmondDantes_ Sunday #15

The basic problem blubunyip Monday #25

I don't think they vote Republican becsuse they are stupid. They do it because they are bigots. And the gang members JI7 Tuesday #29

Inner city gangs vote republican?? Melon Tuesday #31

We aren't losing the working class. .The ones that vote supported Trump JI7 Tuesday #33

And being poor and working class doesn't make them stupid. Melon Tuesday #36

Did you know that WV used to be a Democratic stronghold Tanuki Tuesday #43

Yes I knew that and it doesn't change what I said JI7 Tuesday #45

I think there's a world of contrast between verbal criticisms on message board Torchlight Tuesday #46

I remember a documentary about how they didn't take advantage of job retraining Betty Boom Tuesday #37

If only they had voted... Happy Hoosier Tuesday #28

I wouldn't be surprised if that happens to a few more Red States. Behind the Aegis Sunday #9

Lexington, Nebraska comes to mind . . . Tyson is closing its beef processing there, so 3,200 jobs going away . . . . hatrack Tuesday #51

19K? That is a county?!?! Mordred Sunday #16

This thead is a fine example Boo1 Monday #20

People are actually responsible for their votes. Whatever your theory is. nt BootinUp Monday #23

Give me a break róisín_dubh Tuesday #30

It's such a beautiful state Betty Boom Tuesday #38

The population of Morgantown Boo1 Tuesday #39

Well no, it's not. róisín_dubh Wednesday #59

Please Boo1 Wednesday #61

These people are preyed on by hucksters who tell them coal is coming back. Oneironaut Monday #21

The only answer is to consolidate the Virginia's Renew Deal Monday #22

If WV and VA were one state Boo1 Monday #24

West Virginia as a state is destined to become even POORER than it is now. ProudMNDemocrat Tuesday #40

Progressives need to move into these areas dwayneb Tuesday #41

Nobody wants to live on a smoldering slag heap? Aristus Tuesday #50

Promises made. Promises kept... Didn't Trump get all the coal jobs back like he promised? Norrrm Tuesday #52

Democrats should have a long-term plan to start occupying and moving to some of those states oldmanlynn Tuesday #53

Clean Coal isn't coming to the rescue? czarjak Tuesday #55

My home county in MI has half the population it did 100 years ago Kaleva Wednesday #58

Women of reproductive age are not going to want to live, work or start a family in places Quiet Em Wednesday #64