What has happened to West Virginia in the past 20 years?

[pstokely]

It voted for Dukakis? Dirty coal industry propaganda and racism? Increase in megachurches?

[MountainLaurel]

1. Destruction of the unions

And the hideous economy -- when people can barely feed their kids, their only hope is for the afterlife.

[LSdemocrat]

2. I don't recall if this applies to WV, but John King at about 2AM central, noted that

Obama was actually doing worse across the south, with the exception of Florida, in terms of counties won that John Kerry did, who did worse than Al Gore did, who did worse than Bill Clinton did.