• theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Meeting a democrat in West Virginia is like finding a dodo bird in the wild.

    Well, more accurately, it’s like finding a truffle.

    I mean, they’re there. They defiantly don’t take their politics out to town with them though. In some places it can even be dangerous. No way I’d put a sticker on my car that’s for sure.

    Had a dude put a Trump sticker on my bumper once though. I was surprised when I kept suddenly getting “hell yeah buddy” everywhere I went haha. Peeled that off real quick.

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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

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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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.